I don’t know if I’ll do this regularly — I mean I’ll try — but I thought I’d tried to start sharing some of the things I’ve been reading each week here, both new and old.
I hope they are thought provoking and you find some other writers worth following.
Brian Zahnd: Election Season and Your Soul
Brian emphasizes that the political process, while necessary, has little to do with how God is saving the world, and that the fate of the kingdom of God does not depend on political contests. He encourages Christians to prioritize love and civility over political passion. It must be in the air, because I see so many echoes in my own post from this week, Important Election Reminder: God’s Got This
Faithfully Fem: Finding Freedom Through Prayer and Pride
Kate Cockrill is a new Instagram friend and fellow blogger who has written poignantly here about how easy it is to misunderstand each other when we don’t share. School counsellors don’t look for problems if the grades are good. We expect so much from our families we don’t see the pain they aren’t sharing with us. My favorite pull quote: “Pride is medicine.”
“Writers don’t make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don’t work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck’s book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man’s stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more.”
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Lydia Carlis: How Christians can support religious liberty without sacrificing human dignity
Lydia Carlis shares how Christians can support religious liberty while respecting human dignity. Faith should not be used to impose beliefs on others or restrict their freedoms as love, choice, and respect are central to practicing Christianity.
Gabriele Tinti’s Hungry Ghosts
Just in time for Halloween — I mean, uh, Reformation Day? — a haunting collection of poetry and photos.
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