Yes, this election campaign is turning out to be one of the worst ever for stupidity, accusations, vilification, spin, and counter-spin. And the candidates’ supporters are likely worse in this regard than the candidates themselves. If you ever want to see confirmation bias in full flower, just check your Facebook feed. Even author Eric Metaxas, who produced the wonderful biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (the Christian murdered by the Nazis), has been called an anti-Semite for his political endorsement.
Can we stop
this? Please?
Seventy-five
years ago, in the middle of World War II, the BBC asked C.S. Lewis to record
some broadcasts on Christianity (it’s hard to imagine that happening today).
They turned him into a household name.
In Iraq, a
Muslim woman has been devoting her life to helping Christians displaced by
ISIS, and there are a lot of Christians displaced by ISIS.
Good poetry,
some wonderful photos of women’s fashion styles in the 1920s, some haunting photos of an abandoned factory by Tim Good, and a list of the
best bookshops in London (I’ve been to only three; time to go back!). And a Norwegian sings an American folk song -- and transforms it.
Faith
75 Years Ago, C.S. Lewis Speaks to
England About Christianity on the BBC: A Chronology – Justin Taylor at The Gospel Coalition.
Muslim Woman Devotes Her Life to Helping
Christians Displaced by ISIS
– The Christian Post.
Breath Over Still Water: The Arrival of a
Baby – Shawn Smucker.
Why I Am (Still) Not Who I Am – Jay Cookingham at Soulfari.
Poetry
Teacher – Helen at His Refuge Wings.
No One Has Time for This – Elizabeth Marshall at When Grace
Appears.
Life and Culture
The Conservative Echo Chamber is Making
the Right Intellectually Deaf
– Matthew Sheffield at Praxis.
Black and Blue and All – Loren Paulsson at World Narratives.
No, Eric Metaxas is Not a Proto-Nazi – Rod Dreher at American Conservative.
Conversation with R.R. Reno – Mark Movsesian at Law and Religion
Forum.
A Letter to My Daughter about Young Men – Benjamin Sledge at Medium.
Art and Photography
50 Fabulous Pictures of Women’s Street
Style from the 1920s –
Fascination Street.
There’s No Chapel in the World like This
One in New Orleans –
Only in Your State.
Future Past and Ruins – Tim Good at Pics, Poems, and
Ponderings.
Writing
Meet the Speechwriters! – David Murray at Writing Boots.
On
Southern Literature and a Sense of Place – Amanda Nelson at Book Riot.
British Stuff
Best Bookshops in London – Visit London.
Sissel Kyrkjebø sings “Shenandoah”
Painting: Woman Reading with Peaches, oil on canvas (1923) by Henri Matisse.
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