One twelfth of the year is in the books. How do you feel about that? Me, I’m still getting started.

You should read these

1. Climate Change or Demographic Collapse: Which is the Greater Danger? which you can pair with my previous post Is the future of Europe African?
2. On Letting Your Kids Go. A lovely piece of advice from Tim Challies
3. Ivan Provorov and the Pressure to Punish LGBT+ Dissent. We’ve got to grasp what Trevin Wax is saying here which tragically the Church of England hasn’t
4. Fruits of the Spirit: Art from the Heart. The National Gallery in London has a virtual exhibition on this theme. Worth checking out.
5. Steven Greydanus has listed his films of the last year: My favorites of 2022
6. China’s sponge parks. Love the combination of problem solving, environmental resiliency and beauty.
7. 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know You Can Put in the Dishwasher. Potatoes?!

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You should look at this

28 Winning Images from the World’s Largest Underwater Photo Contest

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You should listen to this

I love this sort of easy vibes

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You should watch this

Simple dealing with yourself advice

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This week’s posts

A definite theme to this week’s posts.

Monday: Gender Quality
Tuesday: Some good questions for complementarians
Wednesday: Would the true complementarians please stand up?
Thursday: Similar but not the same
Friday: Some personal reflections on why I’m complementarian

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Reading Colossians Remixed

I haven’t forgotten this series although I wouldn’t blame you if you thought I had. New posts coming (one day).

• 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
• Colossians Remixed: Dealing with postmodernism

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From the archives

What’s the problem with consumerism? Eight reasons: “A church that becomes a consumer product, full of consumers will inevitably slow down in its nation-reaching, church-planting, leadership-raising, money-giving and poor-embracing mission because we will only give what time, money and energy we can spare after our comfort has been maintained.”

Enjoy your weekend.