Corrie Grace Bowman arrived at 5:30am on March 4th (her due date)! We are smitten.
Currently reading: Small Preaching by Jonathan T. Pennington 📚
Watched: Barbie 🍿
Watched this one over two nights with Kristyn. I enjoyed it when we saw it in theaters, but it fell a little flat on the re-watch.
Currently reading: Just Immigration: American Policy in Christian Perspective by Mark R. Amstutz 📚
Finished reading: Protestants : the radicals who made the modern world by Alec Ryrie 📚
Essential reading. An honest—brutally so, at points—recounting of Protestantism’s checkered history. A minor weakness is that Ryrie doesn’t devote much space to the late medieval context and the factors that contributed to the reformation. (Diarmaid MacCulloch’s The Reformation does a better job on this score.) That deficiency is more than made up for by the later sections of his book. As he moves to the “modern” and then “global” age of Protestantism, Ryrie’s account really picks up steam. The section on global Protestantism includes chapters on South Africa, Korea, China, and global Pentecostalism. Ryrie is definitely a historian to keep an eye on.
Finished reading: Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration by Karen González 📚
Arthur Weasley, commenting on AI: “What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain?”
Currently reading: Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration by Karen González 📚
James Wood provides a helpful intervention into the “spiritual formation” conversation by utilizing Aristotle’s Four Causes. (He seems to have done this independently of Luke Stamps, though happily their treatments do not contradict.) I imagine this article will complement Mere Fidelity’s recent conversation around spiritual formation.