Should Followers of Christ Use Recreational Marijuana?
Recreational weed became legal in Chicago on 1 January. The huge lines outside the dispensaries could easily have been confused with the wait-lines one might expect were Apple to launch an iPhone with a teleportation feature. He may go a bit overboard with the wordplay, and surely there are other valid viewpoints, but Kevin Vanhoozer offers a perspective worth reading.
The Steward of Middle-earth
At 95, Christopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, died this week. He had been reading and editing his father’s work since he was a boy, and (I had no idea) posthumously edited 24 of his father’s books. Christopher was the last surviving member of The Inklings. This article is from a year ago, but captures something of this purveyor of some of our most captivating legends.
The Amish Keep to Themselves. And They’re Hiding a Horrifying Secret.
At first glance, I felt dismissive about this article because 1) it’s in Cosmopolitan, 2) the headline is clickbait, and 3) the idea that the Amish aren’t as nobly pure as I want them to be makes me uncomfortable. That said, in the same way that we mustn’t ignore abuse in the Catholic Church, in the SBC, or anywhere else, we mustn’t ignore it among the Amish. If this article is even remotely true, it is an injustice that must be reckoned with.
‘Evangelicals for Trump’ Was an Awful Display by Supposed Citizens of the Kingdom of God
Messiah College professor John Fea writes yet another piece about the evangelical attachment to the president. After three years, most such pieces have little effect on me (or, likely, anyone else), but this one evoked in me the same primary response Fea feels: sadness.
“Trump spent the evening mocking his enemies, trafficking in half-truths in order to instill fear in people whom God commands to ‘fear not,’ and proving that he is incapable of expressing anything close to Christian humility. His evangelical supporters loved every minute of it.”
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