Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Book Review of the Week
Not A Fan, Kyle Idleman (Reviewed by Tim Challies)
Articles of the Week
A Roomful of Yearning and Regret, Wendy Plump, New York Times. Wow. A disturbing, soul-gripping article from (I assume) a non-Christian in the NYT on the devastation that affairs cause. Once again, God’s view on sex: 1,232,723. Hollywood’s: ZERO
So what if abortion ends life? Mary Elizabeth Williams. This is perhaps the most disturbing endorsement of abortion I’ve ever heard. I post it so you can see how far off some in the pro-choice movement have gone, and how absurd the arguments against life are when they are actually played out. Sometimes the best arguments against something are to let the proponents speak for themselves.
Oxytocin: The Neurotransmitter of Love, Brad Hambrick. An article from our own Brad Hambrick explaining, among other things, why a man saying, ‘I’m just not that affectionate’ doesn’t cut it.
30 Things You Might Not Know About C. S. Lewis, Greg Breazeale
How Martin Luther King Jr. Overcame “Christian” White Supremacy, Russell Moore
Really great article on affairs… even for those who are in a dating relationship. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting Mary Elizabeth William’s article. Two things to notice in her article. First, the repeated name calling and demeaning of her opposition, pro-life. I have found too often pro-choice writers avoid substance and instead fill articles with simple verbal barbs. Second, she nicely describes an incoherent view. She is describing the effect of power in culture. In cultures that do not believe in an absolute truth, power and loyalty rule. Often,we see that at work in our government. She is now describing the same process in choice. She agrees that both woman and fetus are human lives. She has no problem with the more powerful one taking the life of the weaker. Truth is trumped by power. This is incoherent because she would certainly not (nor would I) advocate a man exerting power over a woman or the rich abusing the poor with power.