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This week in Christianity Today, Hannah Miller King explored righteous anger. She notes that many Christians today, in America at least, swing between two poles: expressing anger constantly, feeding into online systems that reward rage, or suppressing anger at real injustices because anger feels sinful. We’re right to be cautious, for "human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires" (James 1:20). |
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Jesus instead shows us that "anger has a place when rightly submitted to God," King writes. When he drove the lenders out of the temple, "Jesus’ concern was clearly born of love for God and his people. His example can inspire us to welcome the right kind of anger in the right way. Zeal for God energizes us to protect the purity of our worship and its accessibility to all people. It teaches us to fight corruption in our lives and in our world." |
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Righteous anger, she writes, won’t win friends. "The gospel is not strategic. It is upside-down to this world. It confounds and infuriates and disenfranchises and can lead to our destruction. … Righteous anger stands apart from the rage of the world because it is cruciform: Compelled to do more than point a finger at injustice, we learn to stand in the gap." |
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Former congressman Adam Kinzinger joined The Russell Moore Show this week. He and Russell talked about the past decade of American politics and the state of today’s Republican Party. |
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Adam advised public officials to stay true to their consciences, even if it means losing reelection. "Be willing to ‘die politically’; otherwise, you’re just a guy that’s there to get a title," he said. | Listen here. |
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Harvest Prude, national political correspondent: I’m reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It’s about two very different gentlemen trying to revive magic in England during the Napoleonic Wars. The style is reminiscent of Charles Dickens or Jane Austen. Picture plenty of dry British wit and Random Capitalizations. Very different from Piranesi, but quite good so far. The footnotes are also An Experience (complimentary). |
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Mia Staub, senior editorial project director: I just watched Tree of Life and really enjoyed the Christian themes. |
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Angela Fulton, international editor: Currently reading Careless People, a memoir of Facebook’s former global policy head, that is imminently readable and also very distressing, especially its chapter on how much Facebook capitulated to China. |
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. James K. A. Smith, Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark: Mysticism, Art and the Path of Unknowing (Yale University Press,…
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They didn’t get the message. They won’t bow down. About 2,600 years ago, King Nebuchadnezzar erected a 90-foot-tall image of gold on the plains of Babylon. He assembled his empire’s…
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The day she turned 10 months old, my daughter decided she would take her first steps. As my husband and I watched in awe, her little brain made the needed…
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In 2013, my family moved from Chicago to Los Angeles so I could work on a PhD. My wife returned to the (paid) workforce, and I took on the daytime…
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Throughout Scripture, God calls his people to be faithful and steadfast as we abide in him. Isaiah reminds us our faithfulness is fleeting "like the flowers of the field," yet our hope is secure when we place it in God, so our strength is renewed (Isa. 40:6, 31). In this issue, we consider stories of resilience. Historian Thomas S. Kidd shares missionary Adoniram Judson’s hardship and fortitude in Burma (now Myanmar). Emily Belz reports on Minnesota churches today that are supporting persecuted Karen Christians, also from Myanmar. Haleluya Hadero reports on groups who are determined to help Gary, Indiana, achieve a more resilient future. We also consider Tish Harrison Warren’s new book and feature an interview with her. Rooted in the person of Jesus Christ, Christian resilience is about more than having grit or bouncing back. |
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