Back in 2007, spent a week in Williamsburg. I was biking a lot at that time, and I was able to rent a bike at a local shop. I biked the historic triangle – Williamsburg to Yorktown, and Williamsburg to Jamestown. The parkways connecting them had little car traffic and were generally flat. We visited all three by car as well; 2007 was the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. If you can’t go, Christopher Klein at History.com explains how the three towns shaped the course of American history.
It’s been less than week (it seems like months) since the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., experienced a serious disruption in its worship service by protestors looking for a pastor supposedly involved with ICE. We learned a lot of things from that disruption, including protestors were unaware of the FACE Act and former CNN anchor Don Lemon didn’t understand the First Amendment. Several people had some thoughtful responses. Samuel D. James at Digital liturgies wrote that we have to let the church be the church. Jesse Johnson explained that the First Amendment doesn’t give anyone the right to disrupt a worship service. And Al Mohler, often controversial across the evangelical spectrum, wrote in World Magazine that the disruption should be a wake-up call for the church.
While we wait to see what happens next in Iran, reporter Ashley Rindsberg at The Free Press took an unexpected look, not at Iran but in her own media world. And she discovered that, for the past year, Wikipedia editors have been helping Iran rewrite its record on human rights.
More Good Reads
America 250
The Course of Human Events by Steven Sarson – review by Gabriel Neville at Journal of the American Revolution.
America’s 250th Isn’t Just a Birthday – Yuval Levin at The Free Press.
Thomas Nelson of Yorktown, Virginia – Nicholas Marsella at Journal of the American Revolution.
‘Freedom plane’ to take US founding documents on tour for country’s 250th anniversary – Benjamin Sutton at The Art Newspaper.
The Unlikeliest Hero of the American Revolution – Johnathan Horn at The Free Press.
Faith
I Might Owe My Students an Apology About Josephus – John Dickson at The Gospel Coalition.
Why Is Christianity the Best Religion? – John Piper at Desiring God.
Life and Culture
The Times New Roman Font War: I’m on Charlemagne’s Side – John Horvat at The Imaginative Conservative.
What Efficiency is For – Thomas Kidd.
The Semester the Lights Came On – Elizabeth Stice at Front Porch Republic.
Save the Humanities from the Slop – Alan Noble at The Gospel Coalition.
Tobacco Ruminations No. 4 – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
Poetry
The boy Will goes skating in the frosty night – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941 – Colm Toibin at London Review of Books.
“The Bust,” poem by W.H. Davies – Joseph Borrum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Writing and Literature
An Invitation to the Wonders of Reading – Alex Sosler at Front Porch Republic.
Like Walking on Water – Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy, poem by Luci Shaw
Painting: John Keats in His Study, oil on canvas by Joseph Severn (1793-1879).
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