It’s midsummer! That means at this high point of Swedish-ness where summer is celebrated, it is of course, raining. If you want to have a regular dose of Sweden in your inbox (and who wouldn’t?) then I can recommend the newsletter With Love from Sweden by Viktoria Wägert. It’s really good.
For those of you who like to track with me here are some of the most interesting, stimulating, thought-provoking and distracting things I’ve read, seen and enjoyed over the past week.
You should read these
- Paul Teamed with Women to Start Churches. So Will We. Good stuff from Thabiti Anyabwile
- In Defence of Being Directive. Andrew Bunt: “In reality, what those who object to directive teaching and pastoral support really object to, is not the nature of the teaching or support, but the direction in which it points.”
- What can we build on the other side? Jeremy Williams wonders on the side of the Climate Emergency if the damage is already done, ‘Now what? What can be saved? What is still possible?’
- With that in mind you might want to check out the Plenty! course
- Why this waste? asks Jennie Pollock
- Why are journalists so Left-wing? A good question (and interesting answer) from Ed West.
- The joy of second hand books.
You should look at this
What an amazing thing the heavens are: THE 2021 MILKY WAY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
You should listen to this
Podcast of the week was the excellent Who killed Mars Hill?
You should watch this
It’s 22 minutes but still.
This week’s posts
Transhumanism and the state of the free churches of Sweden were the subject of this week’s musings
- Monday: The mind of God
- Wednesday: The Swedish church in crisis (still)
- Friday: The state of the church in Stockholm
Reading Colossians Remixed
With a friend or two we’re reading through this book. Here are the posts & discussion so far, if you want to catch up or join in.
- Read with me: Colossians Re:mixed
- Colossians Remixed: Placing ourselves
- Colossians Remixed: Hearing with Old Testament ears
- Colossians Remixed: Do we live under an empire?
- Colossians Remixed: Growing in the Empire’s shadow
From the archives
Gleaning: “Whatever else we conclude about the God of the Old Testament, it is hard to argue that He did not, does not, care deeply about the fate of the poor, the refugee, the lowly. The Israelites had their commands to tithe and to give, but here woven into their new economic system was an instruction to care for the poor.”
Have a great week.
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