I didn’t post much last week as it was mostly consumed with travel to, participating in, and then travelling back from my father’s cremation and thanksgiving service. It went well, it felt sad, but honouring, hope filled but with space for grief. Preaching at it was a great honour and a huge challenge. More on that when the video is available.
Now life is getting back to normal and ramping up in terms of activities. The kids are back at their respective schools, their sports are resuming. We are all back to work and meetings are reappearing on my calendar. That’s all good but every now and then I just get hit by a wave of sadness and that’s taking a bit of adjusting to.
I’ve enjoyed discovering both Jack Ryan and Shardlake while as a family we’re back watching the latest acrobatics from American Ninja Warrior.
You Should Read These
This week we have cultural Christianity, global mission, righteous deeds, polyamory, schools, shooting stars and houses!.
- The rise of cultural Christianity: Why religion is thriving in a non-believing age. Fascinating article from The New Statesman.
- How well do you know the current picture of global mission and the task that is still to be done? Take this quiz to find out.
- Your Holy Deeds Are Not Filthy Rags. Quite right from John Piper.
- Why do we need to think about polyamory? A fuller discussion with Andrew Bunt. I wrote on this a week or so ago and you can pair it with this interesting discussion between Louise Perry and Ross Douthat: The Problem with Polyamory
- Why do so many British schools look the same? They do, don’t they?
- Stunning Photo of Perseids Raining Shooting Stars Over Stonehenge. What it says. Stunning.
- I could happily live here. Less happily here.
You Should Look At This
Amazing Finalists of the 2024 Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest. And apparently the collective noun for these rays is a ‘fever’.
You Should Listen To This
There are a lot of songs from this era that are so cool. Not sure today is getting close to this kind of lasting vibe..
You Should Watch This
Very much here for this.
This Week’s Postings
This one was since my last Curiosity Index: Honouring your Father
Monday: Whatever happened to “African solutions to African problems?
Tuesday: The footprints our lives leave
Wednesday: Common ground for Charismatics & Cessationists
Friday: The daunting challenge of preaching on Romans
From The Archives
The gospel reverses the way clean & unclean works. Previously if something clean touched something unclean it became unclean but in Christ the opposite happens. Paul is reversing that here and saying that the one that is holy is making the unholy person ‘holy’ and therefore ‘clean’. They can be touched, they do not need separating from.
Have a great week and if you see something you think deserves a spot here let me know
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