No writing of my own this week so you’ll have to content yourselves with this bag of goodies from others.

The 7 top articles

1. The case of Sarah Everard should make us all stop and think: Yes, it should. “Why are stories of men killing women rarely regarded as newsworthy, and when they are, is the focus so often on explaining and exculpating male violence? Why isn’t domestic violence against at least 1.6 million women a year much, much higher up the political agenda? Why are Commons debates about domestic violence one of the few parliamentary events where most speakers are female?”
2. Hide And Seek: This is very much worth your time to read. “I walk into the room and I can hear his muffled breath and poorly suppressed giggling. He hides from me. This has been our ritual for longer than I can remember, he’s almost a teen, and he’s been doing this since he was just a toddler.”
3. Growing My Faith in the Face of Death: Profound faith building stuff from Tim Keller. “I have spent a good part of my life talking with people about the role of faith in the face of imminent death. Since I became an ordained Presbyterian minister in 1975, I have sat at countless bedsides, and occasionally even watched someone take their final breath. I recently wrote a small book, On Death, relating a lot of what I say to people in such times. But when, a little more than a month after that book was published, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, I was still caught unprepared.”
4. The Yawn of JEDP: “While the dead hand of the documentary hypothesis still dominates Old Testament scholarship as its official orthodoxy, the cutting edge research of recent years has typically been highly critical of the theory.”
5. Is the Western way of raising kids weird? Yes. Yes, it is.
6. Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free. There’s quite a lot that could go this way, that could return facilities to rural areas making them more attractive to live in but at the same time won’t necessarily create community because people are replaced by apps.
7. Biblical and Shakespeare gardens. “Some gardens grow only the plants mentioned in either the Bible or the works of Shakespeare.”

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Some incredible photos

The Temporary Ruins of Harbin’s Melting Ice Sculptures. There’s a metaphor for life here.

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Something to listen to

I enjoyed this conversation between Carey Nieuwhof and Cal Newport about structuring your work more meaningfully.

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Something to watch

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From the archives

Life in Christ: appetite, ambition and approval:

The concept of character, growth was put in the context of a very simple grid: appetite, ambition and approval. I found this an immediately helpful way of thinking about submitting all of my life to the lordship of Christ.

Have a great week.