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New in @firstthingsmag, @scottyenor reviews Offensive Christianity: “Davis’s roadmap for discipling young men may just issue in renewal—of both church and civilization.”
“By conforming himself in prayer to the crucified Lord, Jimmy Lai is living his unjust punishment as an occasion of grace.”The Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi by George Weigel George Weigel on Jimmy Lai’s witness in prison and why his case remains a challenge for Xi Jinping. Available at firstthings.com/the-strength-o…
- “Jimmy, whom I am honored to call a friend, is a seventy-eight-year-old diabetic who has been in solitary confinement some seven hundred days longer than the United States was engaged in World War II, and is now serving a twenty-year sentence for threatening Chinese nationalThe Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi by George Weigel George Weigel on Jimmy Lai’s witness in prison and why his case remains a challenge for Xi Jinping. Available at firstthings.com/the-strength-o…
- The Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi by George Weigel George Weigel on Jimmy Lai’s witness in prison and why his case remains a challenge for Xi Jinping. Available at firstthings.com/the-strength-o…
- “In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo singles out as ‘particularly insidious’ the ideology that ‘suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth.’ This view—where the human person is born in debt, and eventually buys him or herself free—obviously puts the veryWorth Beyond Our Works Leah Libresco Sargeant on AI, human dignity, and why our worth cannot be measured by what we can do Read the full piece at firstthings.com/worth-beyond-o…
- Worth Beyond Our Works Leah Libresco Sargeant on AI, human dignity, and why our worth cannot be measured by what we can do Read the full piece at firstthings.com/worth-beyond-o…
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Me for @firstthingsmag on #magnificahumanitas: We're all Gary Kasparov now. "In the past, when computers mastered a specific domain of human excellence, the response was often to think less of that domain, rather than to think less of ourselves." - In Memoriam: Robert Louis Wilken by David Novak, Stanley Hauerwas, and Robin Darling-Young Robert Louis Wilken, one of the foremost historians of early Christianity of his generation, died on June 6 at age eighty-nine. Friends and colleagues remember a scholar whose final
- “The battle over women in ministry is driven by the tensions in evangelicalism, not a slide into liberal theology. The SBC sits between the conservative Reformed world and the non-denominational Pentecostal-Charismatic world. These two worlds are pulling in opposite directionsThe Protestant Mind: Women Ministers and the Evangelical Future By Dale M. Coulter @DaleMCoulter Read the latest newsletter and subscribe for free at protestantmind.com/p/women-minist…
- The Protestant Mind: Women Ministers and the Evangelical Future By Dale M. Coulter @DaleMCoulter Read the latest newsletter and subscribe for free at protestantmind.com/p/women-minist…
- “That the destruction of a child with Down syndrome has provoked such a broadly negative reaction is not only good, but deeply necessary. It indicates that our public immune system with regard to eugenics is not yet dead—but like people with Down syndrome, it may soon beWhen Eugenics Goes Viral by Jonathon Van Maren Read the full piece at firstthings.com/when-eugenics-…
- When Eugenics Goes Viral by Jonathon Van Maren Read the full piece at firstthings.com/when-eugenics-…
