SOME GOOD READING FOR YOUR SUNDAY AFTERNOON, SET OUT IN MY USUAL CATEGORIES OF FAITH, FAMILY, AND FICTION ...
Faith
- "Amorites and Exile":
This ... has always helped me grasp why God displaced the Amorites: they weren’t just collateral damage cluttering up the land he’d promised to his chosen people. No, they had their own independent account to keep with God.- "Reviewing 'You Are What You Love', by James K.A. Smith": Doesn't this sound like a good book?
Family
- "Tired, in the pool":
Over a bottle of wine at dinner I told the story to Mark. "I had a lot of time in the pool to contemplate why the man's behavior, even though objectively it doesn't seem like much, was so threatening," I said.
"It's because he communicated, in several ways, 'I am not going to abide by the normal limits of behavior,'" Mark suggested.
"Yes, I think that's it," I mused. "You're forced to wonder, 'What other rules of appropriate behavior are you going to ignore?'"- "Run, Hide, Fight: OC Sheriff's Dept. officials detail what to do in an active shooter situation": I know this is a scary topic, but it's a lot better to be educated on the topic than not. (And to know that your kids know, too.)
Fiction
- "Captain America, Aaron Burr, and the Politics of Killing Your Friends": This is just a fantastic essay. Here's an excerpt:
While the political question ofCivil War as a comic series was whether the grave risks of registration outweighed the potential benefits, the political question of Civil War the movie is how to stop even profound disagreements from souring into enmity. Into hurled insults. Into trolling. Into being forced to unfollow people on Facebook.
Too specific?
- "Neil deGrasse Tyson Is a Black Hole, Sucking the Fun Out of the Universe": Cautions for language on this one -- but on the other hand, that's kind of the point of this one: language (and everything else) gets really, really boring when you are only allowed to talk like a pedant.
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