Finished Reading: On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed 📚

Finished Reading: Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World by Larry W. Hurtado 📚

Finished Reading: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 📚

Finished Reading: The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚

why death is bad: a primer for Christians

Finished Reading: Grant by Ron Chernow 📚

Finished Reading: How the Bible Actually Works by Peter Enns 📚

Finished Reading: Christianity’s Surprise by C. Kavin Rowe 📚

Finished Reading: Christ and Calamity: Grace and Gratitude in the Darkest Valley by Harold Senkbeil 📚

All Dressed Up

“Much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism is not essential to Christianity,” Noll has written. And he is surely correct. I would add only that it isn’t simply the case that much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism is not essential to Christianity; it is that now, in important respects, much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism has become antithetical to authentic Christianity. What we’re dealing with—not in all cases, of course, but in far too many— is political identity and cultural anxieties, anti-intellectualism and ethnic nationalism, resentments and grievances, all dressed up as Christianity.

Peter Wehner

Finished Reading: Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists by Cornelius Plantinga Jr. 📚

Finished Reading: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 📚

Finished Reading: The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate by John H. Walton 📚

Finished Reading: The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough 📚

Finished Reading: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell 📚

I hate Halloween.

Finished Reading: 1776 by David McCullough 📚

Finished Reading: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris 📚