Saturday, April 8, 2023

Saturday Good Reads - April 8, 2023


After reading Paul Kingsnorth’s essay at UnHerd, “We must become barbarians,” I think I’ve finally understood that I’ve become fully countercultural. This is not necessarily a bad thing. As my younger son recently pointed out to me, it’s becoming increasingly edgy (i.e., countercultural cool) to be a Christian. I’ve been retro for 50 years and didn’t know it. But read Kingsworth’s essay to see what it means today to be a barbarian. But I have to remind myself that it’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming. 

If there’s a comic strip that I truly and deeply miss, it’s B.C. by Johnny Hart. For decades, the doings of those cave men and cave women kept me entertained with its subtle yet loving depiction of the foibles of our times. John Stonestreet at Breakpoint describes how Hart taught millions about Easter in the Sunday comics.

 

It was Roald Dahl, then it was Agatha Christie. There’s no telling which author is next for the sensitivity knife. Nadya Williams at Front Porch Republic has a proposal: how to update Homer foe sensitive modern readers.

 

More Good Reads

 

Life and Culture

 

Is Liberalism Worth Saving? – Patrick J. Deneen, Francis Fukuyama, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, & Cornel West at Harper’s Magazine.

 

‘I Felt Bullied’: Mother of Child Treated at Transgender Center Speaks Out – Emily Yoffe at The Free Press.

 

News Media

 

The Shredding of Middle West Newspapers – Jon Kauch at Middle West Review.

 

Writing and Literature

 

Twelve of the best novels about journalism – John Sturgis at The Spectator.

 

The Bombadil Enigma, Part Two: The Mroczkowski Letter – Keith Mathison. 

 

Faith

 

The Essential Church Documentary – The Cripplegate.

 

What C.S. Lewis Got Wrong about the Cursing Psalms – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.

 

Every Sunday is Easter – Joe Holland at Sola Eccelsia. 

 

The crucifixion gap: why it took hundreds of years for art to depict Jesus dying on the cross – Robyn Whitaker at The Conversation.

 

Art Will Touch Lives’: An Aging Farmer Adds a New Dimension to his Ministry – Max Heine at Front Porch Republic.

 

Poetry 

 

The Cross Speaks – Sally Ito at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).

 

Ice Cream Sky – Havalah Pierce at Story Warren.

 

Ukraine

 

Putin’s pals: The world has not united against Russia – Damien Phillips at The Critic Magazine.

 

Andrey Kurkov brings clarity to the Ukraine invasion – Fred Skulthorp at The Spectator.

 

Young Ukraine: Ukraine's national identity has come a long way – Ken Moscowitz at American Purpose.

 

American Stuff

 

Shiloh: Day to Night on the Battlefield – Chris Heisey at Emerging Civil War.

 

I Know That My Redeemer Lives – Keith & Kristyn Getty, Laura Story



 Painting: Le philosophe lisant, oil on canvas by Jean Simeon Chardin (1699-1779).

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