From the difficult-to-watch documentary (available on Netflix), One Child Nation. So profoundly sad and sobering.
For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
(Romans 2:14–15 ESV)
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age by Samuel JamesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Insightful. My “review” this time will consist of the questions I wrote up for an interview I’m doing with the author: My guest today on Logos Live is the only...
The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Abigail Rine Favale My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well written, provocatively helpful—provocative because she was schooled in evangelicalism (which makes her like me) and in feminist theory (which makes her not like me)—and is...
A friend asked me for my thinking—and my reading recommendations—on Christian political philosophy. I was pretty frank and open. I don't hold myself up as a master of the topic. I welcome input from others here. What should I read? What should my friend read? My...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro My rating: 5 of 5 stars Robert Caro is fascinated by power. He has given his life to exploring how it is gained and kept. And in Robert Moses, the subject of this epic book, power looks like the...
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Lacey and I just watched this last month. I felt ashamed at my ignorance of the whole thing.
They had reasons for not wanting the world to be as aware as the documentary makes us.
I remember as a teen learning of the child sacrifice to Moloch and thinking how barbaric some dark ancient cultures were. Blind, wicked people.
But understanding what is really going on today, around the world or in my own hometown, to the gods of government, self, and convenience: it’s too awful to comprehend. I hope this cannot go on for more years until history justly despises us.
Dear God, send the Redeemer!