The presidential
election continues to explode, implode, and reach new lows for common decency.
Although to suggest the idea of common decency in a nation that celebrates the song
lyrics of Beyonce and entertainers like Miley Cyrus is, I admit, a bit naïve
and old-fashioned.
A Scot in
Edinburgh discovers Hillbilly Elegy
by J.D. Vance. Author R.R. Reno speaks about his new book. Poet Billy Collins
has fun spearing the writers of opaque poetry (turnabout is fair play, since
they often spear him). Twenty-five new Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered and
explained. And British poet Owen Sheers writes a long, rather epic poem to
memorialize the 50th anniversary of the tragedy at Aberfan in Wales,
when a slag heap gave way and engulfed a school; the poem is also being
telecast.
The web had some
beautiful things this week. Tim Good posted a stunning photograph of “Fall
Feathers.” The Daily Mail had a story
on Britain’s loveliest (and smallest) places of worship. Darlene of the blog
Simply Darlene writes about her diabetes. And more.
Fortunately,
life isn’t all politics. Even in a presidential election year.
British Stuff
Britain’s tiniest and loveliest places of
worship – Daily Mail.
Peter Holder Concert – St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.
A Transatlantic Elegy for an American
Hillbilly – Mez
McConnell at 20 Schemes.
Faith
Principled, Practical Ways for Christians
to Think about the Election Season
– Hugh Whelchel at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics.
Authority: God’s Good and Dangerous Gift – Jonathan Leeman at 9Marks.
10 Christian Athletes Who Were Tebowing
Before Tebow – Paul Putz
and Art Remillard at Christian History.
No One Else is Coming – Tim Challies at Informing the
Reforming.
Poetry
Billy Collins Gleefully Needles Opaque
Poets – Daniel Asa Rose
at The Observer.
'Dulce Et Decorum Est', a close reading – Santanu Das at the British Library.
Ziplock – Elise Campbell at Curator
Magazine.
Coffee Ring – Thom Lloyd-Evand via The Poetry
Society.
Aberfan 50 years on: how best to remember
the tragedy? – Owen
Sheers at The Guardian. Extracts from the poem “The Green Hollow.”
Life and Culture
Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society – R.R. Reno at First Things Magazine.
Discovering the Reformation View of Work – Hugh Whelchel at the Institute for
Faith, Work, & Economics.
The Heart of the Matter – Darlene at Chronic Joy.
The
wild era that changed what we wear – Lindsay Baker at BBC.
25
new “Dead Sea Scrolls” revealed – at Fox News Science.
Art and Photography
Fall Feathers – Tim Good at Pics, Poems, and
Ponderings.
Late Summer Details – Jack Baumgartner at The School of the
Transfer of Energy.
Britain’s Historic Houses, Castles and
Gardens from the Air
Painting: Man Reading by Paul Signac (1863-1935).
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