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