Managing Editor for mbird.com. Phd in New Testament and Early Christianity from Durham University, England. On Twitter @toddbrewer_
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The Gospel of Amazon Prime
The Hunt for that Perfect Item at the Lowest Price has Become an Online Game of Conquest and Mastery
The Parable of the Wheat (Beer) and the Weeds: Judgment and Grace
Judgment is a Weapon that No One Can Wield Properly, Something Well Illustrated by Our Lives on Social Media
Another Week Ends: Justin Bieber, the Tyranny of Meritocracy, Accidentally Going Viral, Pandemic Show Tunes, and More Strange Rites
1. Leading off this week, the philosopher Michael Sandel has some hefty critiques of the idea of meritocracy, specifically its disastrous effects on social and individual wellbeing in a global capitalist economy. Within a meritocracy, success becomes the law to live by that ruthlessly judges personal failure, dividing the self-righteous deserving from the unrighteous lazy. […]
Another Week Ends: Toxic Positivity, Justin Townes Earle, Boredom, College Reopening Disasters, and Unsolicited Advice
1. Kicking off this week’s review is a fantastic reflection in the Wall Street Journal by Mike Kerrigan: “A Late Bloomer Learns to Forgive.” A lawyer by occupation, Kerrigan speaks of his long-standing, uncomfortable relationship with forgiveness: In his autobiographical “Confessions,” St. Augustine of Hippo, whose Feast Day is celebrated Friday, admits praying as a […]
Learning in Coronatide: C. S. Lewis on Going Back to School
“Is It Not like Fiddling while Rome Burns?”
The Shape of Modern Morality: Swapping Jesus for Hitler?
The Story of Secularization can have a Number of Different Starting Points
The Folly of the Cross in Our Divided World
“Any Genuine Theology Will Have to be Measured Against the Test of this Scandal.”
Another Week Ends: Tom Holland, White Fragility, Religious Fandom, J.I. Packer, and Cancel-Culture Fear
1. High Profiles this week featured a fascinating in-depth interview with history writer Tom Holland about his intellectual journey, personal beliefs, Islam, secular liberalism, contemporary news, and Christianity more broadly. I think I am naturally conservative. I think I’m more moved by things that have been than things that might be. I feel the power of what’s […]
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