Here are things I’ve read, watched and discovered as my curiosity got the better of me this week. I’ve played around a little with the order and tried embedding the twitter posts.
Some interesting things (to me)
Seven posts that caught my eye.
- The Mandalorian recycles a critique of religion: “The challenge to believers from people pointing this out is, broadly, how do you know that you believe what you believe because it’s true or do you just believe it because you’ve always been told that it’s true? That’s quite a question to reflect on.”
- Houses of light – offering our lives and the gospel in a pandemic: “You’ll never feel brave enough or ready enough to do some of these things. So together, with friends pray for God to help you love your community dearly.”
- Francis Chan Returns from Hong Kong After Visa Rejected
- Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City’: “The ultimate goal is hugely ambitious: a rethink and makeover of every street in the country over this decade, so that “every street in Sweden is healthy, sustainable and vibrant by 2030,” according to Street Moves’ own materials.”
- Smartphone: Propaganda Posters for the Modern Age
- For the Christian Who Is Afraid To Die: “What we know of life after death we must know by faith. And what does the faithful heart believe about the experience of death?”
- Are disenchanted Iranians turning to other faiths? My anecdotal answer to this is, yes.
Seven Twitter highlights
Why are we still doing this? It’s not just for girls
Eye-catching stuff
Something to watch
The Week’s Postings
Tuesday: Nuclear weapons are illegal. Good.
Wednesday: Films to watch with my son
Thursday: Life is…
Friday: Your church (& mine) needs a climate emergency toolkit
Related readings
- The world is facing an upsurge of nuclear proliferation & Nuclear proliferation is not fast, but it is frightening. I definitely feel some sort of justification when The Economist makes the same argument I’ve been making for a couple of years now.
- The Christian Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima: A compelling read of the horror of the bomb.
- Lifestyle change vs System change
- The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. This one is a bit depressing.
- Funding boost for Africa’s Great Green Wall – so this one is a bit more hopeful
- How global food production impacts the Paris Agreement
- To reach true net-zero, we need tech that doesn’t yet exist
From the archives
The struggles of church without God: “Belief is not really about being good and celebrating life and wonder. More importantly, it is about being saved. That is, it is a way of addressing some inherent brokenness about human beings, a brokenness that we are unable to fix by ourselves.”
Have a great weekend!
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