Saturday, April 4, 2015

Saturday Good Reads


Frederica Mathewes-Greene is a Christian who doesn’t oppose gay marriage. This week on Facebook, she posted a link and undertook a discussion about the law in Indiana that has caused so much outrage. The link she shared is noted below. Her Facebook discussion is worth reading as well. With that link below is another one, a discussion of the legislation by a law professor who actually read it (admittedly, not a typical thing to do in this day and age of “we have to pass it to see what’s in it”). And there is a third link - Rod Dreher's conversation with a law professor at an elite university; the professor has to remain anonymous because he is a Christian.

Yesterday was Friday. Today is Saturday. Sunday’s coming.

Poetry

Something Else – John Blase at The Beautiful Due.

Kaki – Frederick Buechner.

The Mariner’s Shadow – Clive S. Johnson

Count it all as loss – Tania Runyan at The Christian Century.

Noir Lyre – Brendan MacOdrum at Oran’s Well.

The Plagiarist – Chris Galford at The Waking Den.

Photography

Flowers – Timothy Good at Photography by Tiwago.

Faith and Culture

How Sujifan Stevens Subverts the Stigma of Christian Music – Atlantic Magazine (Hat tip: Jared Gilbert).


Faith

After the Tears – Diana Trautwein at Just Wondering.

Napping in Gethsemane – David Rupert at Red-Letter Believers.

Why Does the Resurrection Matter? – Central Presbyterian Church, St. Louis (that’s my church).

The Kiss of Judas – Peggy Rosenthal at Image Journal.

Unrecognizable – Jay Cookingham at Soulfari.

A Protestant's Passion for the Virtues of Thomas -- Carl Trueman at First Things (Hat tip: my brother, Jim Young).

Christianity, when properly understood, is a religion of losers - Giles Fraser at The Guardian.

Culture

How the Millennials Became a Generation of “Experts” – Matt Appling at The Church of No People.

Indiana and its Aftermath

Gay Marriage Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Selma Envy – Hans Fiene at The Federalist. (Hat tip: Frederica Mathewes-Green).

Ironies in Indiana – Mark Movsesian at First Things.

The Post-Indiana Future for Christians - Rod Dreher at American Conservative.

Writing

The value of our art – Billy Coffey at What I Learned Today.

Fun




Top photograph by Ken Kistler via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for including me bro'!

diana said...

thank you so much, Glynn - so kind of you!