The Curiosity Index (26.04.2018)

Stop Making Hospitality Complicated

Habits of hospitality, on the other hand, are downright subversive in our culture of independence and calculation. They demonstrate that it is not only possible but fruitful and beautiful to share life in a substantive way outside the confines of the nuclear family. And, in so doing, they point to the reality of the common good, not just as a theoretical concept but as a practical one that can animate an authentic Christian community.

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Why Read Philemon? Ten Reasons

Scott McKnight gives you ten good reasons to study this book.

Racism, white nationalism, populism, elitism, marginalization, power differential, economic privilege, economic power, political power … I could go on but I leave you to fill in the blanks. Paul’s letter to Philemon addresses each of these and many more situations.

What is Paul’s answer to the Philemon-Onesimus differential in status and power? “No longer a slave, better than a slave, a brother or a sibling.” That’s the Christian answer to these differentials: No longer! No longer equality, justice, eradication of status differentials by the Body of Christ in the Body of Christ and beyond!

5 Concrete Ways to Develop a Healthier Relationship With Your Phone

For many of us, our smartphones have come to feel like another appendage. We carry them wherever we go, fondle them during meals and conversations, and sleep with them next to our pillows. Wherever one is, so is the other….To modify that relationship, it’s helpful to develop some concrete habits — a set of more embodied behaviors — that tangibly shift the place of your phone away from the center of your life.

21 Books You Don’t Have to Read

Not all the Great Books have aged well. Some are racist and some are sexist, but most are just really, really boring. So we—and a group of un-boring writers—give you permission to strike these books from the canon. Here’s what you should read instead.

Unsurprisingly the Bible makes the list of books you don’t have to read: “It is repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned.” And was replaced by a book I’ve never heard of that is subtle and cruel.

Sophie Raworth and the 150-mile desert ultra-marathon

A huge amount of respect to anyone who completes the MDS.

 

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