The Weekly, August 28, 2024
Hi all,
There is no shortage of reasons to despair in our moment, so this week I wanted to highlight something good in this short note:
Hauerwas once said this in an interview with Plough:
If in a hundred years Christians are identified as people who do not kill their children or the elderly, we will have done well.
If we are to live up to that goal, then it will be at least in part because of the quiet and faithful work of organizations like the Fire Foundation in Denver. As you consider end of year gifts to worthy nonprofits, perhaps consider them.
Books
I’m reading Louise Perry’s Case Against the Sexual Revolution right now and may have more thoughts later. I’m also still working through Postman’s Technopoly and Barba-Kay’s Web of Our Own Making.
Articles
Michael Sacasas on attention and enchantment
Madeleine Davis on the rise of cultural Christianity
Zoë Bernard on escaping the online world
Elle Hardy on narco-Pentecostalism
Jane Psmith on “traditional societies”
Patrick Gilger on William Cavanaugh’s latest book
Jerusalem Demsas on schools as daycare (I really hate this take, but I appreciate the piece for at least being honest about what we’re really doing when we decide to gut the household)
JD Flynn on St Monica
Ali Breland on the return of race science
Elsewhere
Not much to report here this time around. Perhaps next week.
Thanks for reading!
Under the Mercy,
~Jake