An encouraging comment on the Living Unabridged Facebook page reassured me that these posts are still being read. Old style blogging may be dead, but a blogger can obviously still live on a good comment for a solid week!
Quite a diverse list of links this week so let’s get to them.
- What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? I hope you have at least one of your free articles at the New York Times left for this. It is VERY long and incredibly fascinating as well as heartbreaking.
- What You Share When You Show Christian Hospitality by David Qaoud at Christian Relevance. Side note: want to read something that will totally change how you see hospitality? Read Rosaria Butterfield’s The Gospel Comes With a House Key.
- There Should Be Two of Us: A Lament for Loss and a Look to Hope by Jared Wilson. Reflections on the tragic loss of “the other Jarrid Wilson.”
- It’s hard to have a discussion about Christian Classical Education without Doug Wilson’s name coming up at some point. And that’s unfortunate. This post helps explain some of the reasons why: Doug Wilson, Christianity Today, and the White Supremacist in the Room by Libby Anne.
- A Tale of Two Teachers from Will Not Be Taken. This needs to be said in the current environment of Christian women’s ministry. All teachers are not equally beneficial.
- Somewhat related to the above: How Biblical Is Your Womanhood: Two Easy Tests by Jasmine Holmes.
- If You Want Kids to Own Their Faith, Teach Them to Think Critically About Their Faith by Tim Barnett. Could be subtitled: Why Catechism Isn’t Enough.
- I’m not a Charlotte Mason homeschooler but I still found this encouraging from Brandy: Health Issues? It’s Okay to Adjust Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool Schedule.
- I don’t usually link to Twitter threads here but this was a good one: Bob Lepine reflects on Christian celebrity conversions.
- There are some disturbing images in this post about art history, including various diseased body parts, but it was fascinating and sad: Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death by Katy Kelleher.
- I don’t think this particular art story would have caught my eye except I was just in the National Portrait Gallery myself: A Fox Running Loose in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
- Our household highly values librarians so of course this caught my eye: Female Librarians on Horseback, Delivering Books, ca 1930s.</li>
- Something for my fellow Star Wars fans: So, What Can a Force Ghost Do? (Shorter answer: whatever the filmmaker wants them to do…)
- Rarely does a story grab me by the headline alone, but in this case that’s what happened: Cops Assemble at IKEA to Halt 3,000 Person Hide and Seek Game. (Bonus points for the use of “assemble” in the headline!)
From Living Unabridged
Recently: Our Children Are Stressed
One year ago: The Trouble with Mansfield Park
Two years ago: Reading About Race and Slavery in 2017
Three years ago: Absorbed in a Book (A words on Wednesday post – I miss those!)
Four years ago: What Marie Kondo and L.M. Montgomery Taught Me About Homemaking (timely to revist this since I’ve been reading the Anne books to my girls for the past few months)
Thanks to everyone who reads these links roundups and especially to those of you who continue to share your favorite Living Unabridged posts from the past!
