Hello welcome to the weekend.

It’s a bit boring saying my writing is all over the show this year but it is and no one is more aware of the inconsistency than me. But hey, here’s some stuff. Enjoy!

You Should Read These

Do you want the bad news or the good news? OK, bad news first…

1. You Can’t Life-Hack Your Way to Holiness by Trevin Wax is good.
2. On Reparations. Vinoth Ramachandra is often an abrasive and challenging read as he is here.
3. The Nicene Myth by Philip Jenkins is very good, I think, at sorting the fact from the fiction.
4. The Criticized Leader is helpful when the inevitable happens.
5. The green rooftops of Milton Keynes. Apparently you can ease flooding drains by putting gardens on roofs of all places.
6. How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test? Pretty good, you can’t fool me AI bit-artists!
7. Scientists Confirm Monkeys Do Not Have The Time to Write Shakespeare. Only just about enough time to write ‘bananas’.

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You Should Look At This

Astonishing Photo of Millions of Monarch Butterflies Wins 2024 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest

Look carefully and you’ll realise there are no leaves in this photo only butterflies.

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You Should Listen To This

This is not a song. It’s a 69.5 hour playlist. It’s your background music for work sorted. If you enjoy ambient lofi that is.

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You Should Watch This

Plenty more where this came from which is The British Pathe Archive.

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This Week’s Postings

I’ve written something!

Friday: Does your church have missional power?

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From The Archives

It would seem that parents’ use of mobiles and the harmful effects on family life reveal that the first generation of victims of the smartphone revolution was not the children but the parents.

Unprepared and caught off-guard we quickly became addicted to the dangerous new drug of ‘connection’. We have allowed our minds to be hijacked and we showcase all the signs of addiction: dangerous levels of self-justification, over-stimulation, a willingness to spend ridiculous sums of money to feed our habit as we become oblivious to the needs of those around us we escape into another world and as we do other vices get installed into our characters and souls.

Smartphones, idols and rescuing a generation (just not the one you think)

I hope you enjoyed your weekend. Do let me know if there’s something here you appreciated or if you see something you think would be worth sharing, let me know!