Kindle Deal: My book, This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths In Light of the Gospel, is available on Kindle this weekend for $2.99.
Seven of the best articles I came across this week:
1. Jen Pollock Michel – Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease is the New Vice. Do modern amenities make it tough for us to embody God’s love?
2. Samuel James – We’re All Fundamentalists Now. I had not considered the parallels between conservative Christians and some of today’s strongest advocates for social justice — the impulse to be morally wakeful and alert. What is often missing in both camps? Grace.
3. Anthony Carter – Jesus Honored and Dishonored. With the exaltation of Christ, honor is no longer an impersonal virtue. It is not a theoretical notion from antiquity. Honor has a name.
4. Paige Williams in The New Yorker – The Family Business That Put Nashville Hot Chicken on the Map. Glad to see Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack getting its due in a national magazine. If you ever visit Nashville, don’t miss out on hot chicken.
5. Andrew Wilson – Anywheres and Somewheres. The main fault line in contemporary society is not between right and left, or capitalists and socialists. Rather, argues David Goodhart, it is “between the people who see the world from Anywhere and the people who see it from Somewhere.”
6. Jonah Goldberg – The Definition of Dogma. Moral progress, or the story of civilization, is a scavenger hunt for categorical imperatives, a search for truths that are — or should be — true everywhere. Lots of Chestertonian wisdom in this essay.
7. June Cheng – Expelled from China. The future of foreign missionaries in China looks bleak, and those who remain in the country are uncertain how much longer they’ll be able to stay.
