✧ Abortion in the Early Church (video)
It's Sanctity of Life week, and you may hear someone make the oft repeated claim that Christians didn't care about abortion until the 1970s, so I'll lead with this video by Gavin Ortlund which demonstrates that the Church has always opposed abortion.
✧ The Great Omission
Jen Wilkin warns us that we can read our Bible plan every year and still not be biblically literate, and that affects how we live.
A Bible literacy crisis has flooded the halls of local churches and left many Christians unable to recall basic information contained in Scripture. Some may not consider this important knowledge for Christians to learn, but Great Commission faithfulness demands our attention.
✧ Show Up with Real-Time Theology
Though we don't want to live our lives reacting to the news, there are times we should be able to give a thoughtful, Christian perspective on what's going on in our world.
We develop a uniquely Christian vision of the world when we focus on a particular cultural topic and then articulate how that topic intersects with our theological confession and the biblical narrative. What are the mechanics of “seeing” theologically in a society that constantly presents new and radical questions?
Developing a theological vision requires at least three steps.
✧ How to Have a Day Job and an Intellectual Life
Young people who love to wrestle with big ideas often think they need to go into academia. John Ehrett explains why that is more limiting than we think and suggests they get a job in the marketplace and then work out how to continue their intellectual life. His suggestions are something older folks can use, too.
I think it’s worth asking whether, for the average twentysomething who loves the life of the mind, this route makes a lot of sense. Against this backdrop, the value proposition of a “normal” job starts to look a little more appealing. (At least, this has been my calculus.) The hard part of working a “normal” job isn’t subsistence. It’s finding the time and motivation to pursue the reading and writing you love. And these problems are solvable.
✧ From the archive: The God Who Separates
Finally, please allow me to blow the dust off an old piece addressing a passage often misunderstood as forbidding interracial marriage.
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