I attend an evangelical, Presbyterian church, part of a small denomination. If someone polled our members, I’d expect that most would say they’re conservative politically. But it’s hard to know, because it’s rare for me to hear anyone talk about politics (about 10 years ago, I did hear a group of men at dinner talk about global warming). Instead, people talk about worship, missions (we’re big on missions), Sunday School classes, our music concerts (we have wonderful concerts), and other church ministries. So, when I first heard about people called “Christian nationalists,” I wasn’t sure what the conversation was about. The one thing I did see that the people talking about “Christian nationalists” tended to be on the far progressive side of the political spectrum. Rachel Lu at National Review describes how sociologists are using a nebulous term to classify half the country as extremist.
Many of us have experienced those periods we call “desert times,” when little seems to go right, you feel like you’re drifting with no real purpose, and nothing looks like it will improve any time soon. Michael Kelley at Forward Progress that there is a point to desert times – and they are not “wasted” time.
What’s the best mystery story ever written? Murders in the Rue Morgue by Poe? The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie? One of Dashiell Hammett’s novels? Ryan Britt at Esquire has a nomination for at least the best Sherlock Holmes story. He says that, 130 years later, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is still the detective’s best outing.
More Good Reads
Life and Culture
How Dads Change with Fatherhood – John Stonestreet & Shane Morris at Breakpoint/Colson Center.
Are We Postliberal Yet? – Michael Hanby at NewPolity.
Mystery Stories on a Mountaintop – Kathryn Butler at Story Warren.
A Message to Intentionally Childless Millennials – Shane Morris at the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
Humane Vitae and the Brave New World – John Cavadini at Church Life Journal.
An Alzheimer Odyssey: Journey’s End – Joseph Mussomeli at The Imaginative Conservative.
Faith
We Are People of the Long Game – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
Resistance and Rebellion – Glenn Moots at Mere Orthodoxy.
Calling Our Your Name – Glenn McCarty at Story Warren.
Poetry
The Truelove – David Whyte at The Marginalian.
Peter Kien: Five Poems Translated by Sibyl Ruth – High Window Press (H/T: Paul Brookes).
Writing and Literature
The Birth of Narnia and Why Tolkien Hated It – Harry Lee Poe at Crossway.
The Birth of an Immortal Literary Character: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Leslie Klinger at CrimeReads.
News Media
"Algorithmic Money Faucet": Trading our humanity for content and engagement – Chris Martin at Terms of Service.
Inside the identity crisis at The New York Times – Ben Smith at Semafor.
American Stuff
Wounded at Cedar Creek – Sarah Kay Bierle at Emerging Civil War.
British Stuff
A Ramble Through Long Forgotten London – Spitalfields Life.
From the Ends of the Earth – Alan Hovhaness
Painting: Reading, oil on canvas (1873) by Berthe Morisot (1841-1895).
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