This year is the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. When we were in London, both the Royal Academy of Arts and the British Library had exhibitions related to the revolution, and both of which put something of a chic gloss on what happened (it wasn’t all about art). Communism is something rather chic as well on many American college campuses, like Harvard. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote an entire series of novels on what led to it and what happened. And he lived the reality of the aftermath. A student at Harvard, whose father fled communism, wrote an article for the Crimson on the reality of that revolution and what it wrought. And the Crimson published it.
It’s the Advent season, and people are writing about it. The
five articles linked below are only a few examples of the good things available
to read.
I didn’t know the story of the song “Finlandia,” but Terez
Rose at The Imaginative Conservative tells it. And it includes a video of a
flash mob singing it (I recognized the music as the same for a hymn we sing at
church).
And the photos: Tim Good takes a walk in the woods, Tom
Darin Liskey takes a walk in Oxford, and the Gentle Author at Spitalfields Life
finds the winter light (we’ve walked some of those streets – I recognized
them.)
And there’s L.L. Barkat on encouraging a love for poetry,
some London “scraps” from the 1880s, a plea for magnanimity, some beautiful
original music called “Passing Shadows,” and more.
History
A
Quick and Dirty Guide to the Middle Ages – Bradley Birzer at The
Imaginative Conservative.
Faith
Why
the Prosperity Gospel is So Harmful – Dr. Andrew Spencer at The Institute
for Faith, Work, & Economics.
How Advent Saved
Christmas for Me – Paul Grodell.
The
Worst Time for Advent is the Perfect Time for Advent – Aaron Earls at the
Wardrobe Door.
We
Need More People with the Humility of Joseph – Zak Schmoll at Entering the
Public Square.
Advent
– The Act of Waiting – Robert Rife at All Nine.
Home for
Christmas – Jay Cookingham at Soulfari.
Dealing
with Sexual Abuse as the Church – Jared Olivetti at Gentle Reformation.
Music
Sibelius,
“Finlandia,” and the Cry of Freedom – Terez Rose at The Imaginative Conservative.
Art and Photography
In
the Woods – Tim Good.
Dreams
and Spires – Tom Darin Liskey via Facebook.
Winter
Light in Spitalfields – Spitalfields Life.
Poetry
The
Illusionist by Michael Shewmaker – Brian Brodeur at How a Poem Happens.
November
Sunset Walk – Chris Yokel.
Encouraging a
Love of Poetry – L.L. Barkat at Edutopia.
British Stuff
My
Cries of London Scraps – The Gentle Author at Spitalfields Life.
Life and Culture
Magnanimity:
The Balm for Our Brutalized Public Discourse – Stephen Klugewics at The Imaginative Conservative.
Opinion
Polls and the ‘Evangelical’ Illusion – Thomas Kidd at The Gospel Coalition.
100
Years. !00 Million Lives. Think Twice – Laura Nicolae at Harvard Crimson.
Writing
A
Historian’s 5 Tips on Writing – Justin Taylor at The Gospel Coalition.
Passing Shadows –
Music by Chase Emery Davis
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