Like tens of millions of others, my wife and I watched the coronation service for King Charles III. Well, we watched the taped version; we both decided that getting up at 3:30 or 4 a.m. to watch it live was a bit much, even for the new king. I was surprised at how close to the traditional ceremony Charles adhered, and I was surprised at how religious a ceremony it was. Christopher Hatton at The Critic Magazine agrees apparently; he found the service deeply religious.
It’s a 100-year-old book that is still in print. In 1923, a Princeton Seminary professor named J. Gresham Machen published Christianity and Liberalism. The book had, and continues to have, an enormous effect on Protestantism in the United States. Some of the major debates of the 20th century – fundamentalism, decline of the mainline churches, and millennial theology – were shaped by Machen’s book. D.G. Hart at Ad Fontes Journal discusses what Machen talked about, and what he didn’t.
Louise Penny has done it in one of her Inspector Gamache novels. Ayn Rand did it. Margaret Atwood has done it. Writers across numerous genres have done it. And that is to write manifesto fiction, perhaps loosely described as building a novel or story around your political beliefs. Nathan Bransford warns against it.
More Good Reads
News Media
‘Manufactured’ Media Lies Can End Democracy: Tucker Carlson Makes First In-Person Speech After Departing from Fox – Gary Bai at The Epoch Times.
Ukraine
The Ukraine Offensives Are Coming: What Might Success and Failure Look Like? – Mick Ryan at Futura Doctrina.
The quiet resistance of ordinary Russians against Putin – Mark Galeotti at The Spectator.
Kherson — the city that never sleeps: The daily Ukrainian struggle to survive – Rosemary Jenkinson at The Critic Magazine.
British Stuff
The Signs of Old London – Spitalfields Life.
The fairytale of British republicanism – Fred Skulthorp at The Critic Magazine.
Inventive Vents (Part One) – Andrew Everlin at Photos, photographers, and photobooks.
Poetry
Bare Branches in Spring – Kathryn Butler at Story Warren.
Poet, What Dreamer Thou Art – Cheryl Corey at Society of Classical Poets.
Charles Reznikoff: The Finest Noir Poet You’ve Never Heard Of – Nick Kolakowski at CrimeReads.
Sole unquiet thing – Ernest Hilbert at New Criterion.
Faith
How to Read Wisdom Literature – Max Rogland at Ligonier.
Jesus stands for Stephen: a sermon on a reading from Acts 7 – Dan King at Bibledude.
Where Does Mark End? Handling Snakes and Ancient Manuscripts – Peter Orr at Desiring God.
Writing and Literature
Susie Luo: On Dreaming About Our Characters – Robert Lee Brewer at Writers Digest.
The Power of the Unsaid: John N. Maclean on Ernest Hemingway’s 'Big Two-Hearted River’ – at Literary Hub.
Life and Culture
The New House, The New Life – Anthony Esolen at Front Porch Republic.
'Cultural Christianity' is fading and that reality is linked to some other newsy trends – Ryan Burge at Get Religion.
American Stuff
Don’t Let Me Come Home a Stranger – Chris Mackowski at Emerging Civil War.
On That Day – City Alight
Painting: Annunciation of Mary, oil on canvas by Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535).
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