I get amused when I see stories about how entitled Baby Boomers are, or how we supposedly lived the life of Riley back in the 1950s. While there are obvious differences to today – families were far more likely to be intact with both parents living together – it wasn’t all like the television shows Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. John Cochrane at The Coolidge Review explains that the 1950s weren’t such a golden age as many believe today believe.
I’ve known of at least four pastors who read fiction, only because they sent me notes about my own novels. It’s not something we expect, figuring they’re always reading the latest books on theology, church issues, and pastoral counseling. T.N. Suffield has some reasons why it is a good idea for pastors to read fiction.
It’s not a story that the mainstream media will cover, but there’s been a spate of articles about nurses posting on social media about ways to harm ICE agents or Trump supporters in general, including one nurse who posted a really vicious attack on the White House press secretary. That nurse was fired and de-licensed for what she said, so at least sanity prevailed. If you want to read these stories, you can google them; I have no interest in providing links other than to note that mental illness seems to have seriously infiltrated the medical community.
More Good Reads
America 250
Putting the American Revolution in Context by Transcription – Carolyn Osborn at Library of Congress.
Ulysses S. Grant, from Semicentennial to Semiquincentennial – ben Kemp at Emerging Civil War.
Advertising a Revolution: An Original Invoice to “The Town of Boston to Green and Russell” – George Bresnick at Journal of the American Revolution.
The Founding of Jamestown (1607) – Britain’s First Permanent American Foothold – Jonathan Thomas at Anglotopia.
Faith
Elites and the Evangelical Class War – John Ehrett at Mere Orthodoxy.
Minneapolis, ICE, and the Christian Response – Kevin Briggins at Informed Takes (Hat Tip: Mike Duran).
The Generational Narcissism of Always Thinking We Face the Biggest Crisis Ever – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.
News Media
One Must Have a Heart of Stone – John Hinderaker at Powerline.
Why Nobody Is Convinced by Footage – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
Writing and Literature
The Summons Our Blood Knows – Mark Botts at Front Porch Republic.
The Leaf Collector (a very short story) – Seth Lewis.
Grateful for the War – Yours Truly at Cultivating Oaks Press.
Nick Carraway & Charles Ryder: Observers of Delusion & Decadence – Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative.
Why “Plot” Isn’t a Four-Letter Word – Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft.
Poetry
“The Boston Evening Transcript,” poem by T.S. Eliot – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
Twigs – Sonja Benskin Mesher.
Open – David Whyte.
Tolkien’s Beowulf : A Man of the Twilight – Bradley Birzer.
British Stuff
Lost Portrait of Robert Burns by Scotland’s Greatest Painter Found After 220 Years – Jonathan Thomas at Anglotopia.
The Skater’s Waltz – Emile Waldteufel
Painting: A Girl Reading, oil on canvas by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906).
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