The weekend! This week it snowed. It didn’t stay very long but still mid-October and snow. I felt personally affronted. Other life lessons this week is that a good night’s sleep makes a massive difference to performance in pretty much every area. I’m in my late 40s and I should have learned that by now. What have you learned this week?

You Should Read These

Seven articles that might be worth you bookmarking, reading & thinking about

1. Why, this is history. Nor are we out of it. A worried Louise Perry wonders if ethnic terror of the sort we’ve seen in Israel could happen in the UK and sees no reason why it couldn’t.
2. Not nearly as dramatic or deadly but, IMHO, still dangerous, Alan Jacobs on the diseases of the intellect.
3. Why ‘comfortable’ cultures are a bad idea from Rachel Botsman and an important distinction between ‘safety’ and ‘comfort’
4. China fact of the day. Astonishing.
5. As a Swedish man, I should have been the perfect modern dad. My failure was shameful. Very sad but honest story. Pair that with by contrast with Be A Man, Go To Church
6. On the Crushing Guilt of Failing at Quiet Time. Good stuff from KDY
7. NASA: We’d Have 30 Minutes’ Warning Before a Killer Solar Storm Hits Earth. In which case my mother would decide she’d better get the washing in then.

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You Should Look At This

20+ Incredible Panoramic Photos From the 2023 EPSON International Pano Awards

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You Should Listen To This

Your weekend dose of chill

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You Should Watch This

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This Week’s Postings

Wednesday: The Family And The Christian Shape Of Things

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From The Archives

…the world as it is being reshaped will not and is not going to be one that works for men and boys? Is it the case as Roger Olsen says that, ‘unintentionally the rise of women is resulting in the decline of men’? How can that possibly be true? Because while the men at the top are still flourishing, men in general across the West are languishing

The Old World Was Not Built For Girls, The New One Is Already Failing Boys