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Psalms in 30 Days: Today’s May 1st. Why not pray through all the psalms with me this month? Here’s the way to download my arrangement of the psalms into 3-times-a-day readings (with other prayers and biblical passages) for 30 days.

Podcast Pick of the Week: The World and Everything In It is consistently excellent. Tuesday’s edition included details on six recent Supreme Court rulings, reports on disruptions to the U.S. food supply chain, and a firsthand account of how Africa is handling the coronavirus pandemic.

Kindle Deal: The Christian and the Pharisee: Two Outspoken Religious Leaders Debate the Road to Heaven by R. T. Kendall and Rabbi David Rosen. $1.99. 

Coronavirus Article: Facts and Trends has posted an interview with me about why ecclesiology matters, even more now as the church is scattered.

Seven of the best articles I came across this week:

1. Andy Crouch – The Year Without a Summer. Are we here for cultural preservation? If so, we should be terrified at this moment. Or are we here for cultural transformation? If so, we should be energized, because we have everything that we need.

2. Joseph Epstein – Getting Groceries in the Time of COVID-19. I love Joseph Epstein’s essays. This is a great one on the local grocer and the rise of the supermarket.

3. Aaron Earls – Pastor Dies Immediately After Easter Sermon on Resurrection Hope. Here’s the story of the pastor who died just after preaching a sermon on Easter.

4. Kevin DeYoung – When Everything Is Not Obvious. “Let’s be mindful of what we truly know and of all the things we don’t really know.”

5. John Wilson The Department of Faulty GeneralizationsJohn Wilson on “the real tension between the indispensability of generalization and the ever-present temptation to force reality, so many-sided, so gratuitously excessive, into convenient little boxes.”

6. Y Bonesteele – Embracing Fragility. Beautiful reflection here from Y Bonesteele on the fragility of life. “Even with our advancements in science, our state of the art technology, and our unprecedented standard of living, we can lose it all in a blink of an eye. We are not God.”

7. M. H. Turner – Why Is Anglicanism a Gateway to Catholicism? This is a really interesting article about evangelical fascination with Anglicanism and why “mere Christianity” — being in the hallway, not the room — isn’t sustainable long-term. See also Paul Owen’s rejoinder, in which he critiques Turner’s historical analysis.

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