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The Weekly Wrap: July 19-25 Goodness, best of 2026 so far, Amitav Ghosh, literary remakes, post-literacy rejoinder, birthright citizenship....

#Amitav Ghosh #Best of 2026 #Birthright citizenship #Curated literary articles #Musings #post-literacy #Quotes #Remake Literature

Review: Persuasion Will Anne Elliot retrieve the missed opportunity of a broken engagement with Captain Wentworth eight years later?...

#Jane Austen #Literary fiction #Regency era

Review: Theo of Golden An old man moves to Golden, sees portraits in a coffee shop and in powerful personal encounters gives them to their owners....

#Allen Levi #Beauty #faith #Goodness #Literary fiction #Presence #Sadness

Review: Words that Shape Us A comparative analysis of four evangelical periodicals coverage of American politics and faith from 2016 to 2024....

#Comparative analysis #Evangelical periodicals #Ken Waters #Media criticism

Review: The Earth Will Be Filled The glory of God in scripture, that God reveals his glory to his people and through them, to fill the earth....

#Biblical theology #Donnie Berry #Essential Studies in Biblical Theology #Glory of God

Review: Moms on the Way A seven week Bible study for groups with personal readings on following Jesus through the challenges of motherhood....

#Bible study #IVP Bible Study Experience #Kathy Tuan-Maclean #Motherhood #Tara Edelschick

The Weekly Wrap: July 12-18 Smoke days, The Odyssey, Colson Whitehead, spirituality of AI, uni-context, community and Christian humanism....

#Agnes Callard #Artificial intelligence #Christian humanism #Colson Whitehead #Curated literary articles #Musings #odyssey #Quotes #Smoke Days #Uni-context

Review: The Knocker on Death’s Door Felse investigates two assaults, one a murder, by a church door that has a legend associated with its knocker....

#Ellis Peters #Mystery #The Felse Investigations

Review: We the People A history of the Constitution, focusing on the amendments and how difficult it has been to amend the constitution....

#Amendments #American History #Constitution #Jill Lepore #Originalism #Supreme Court

Review: Enacting Atonement A study of the burnt offering of Leviticus 1:1-9 and how it displays the logic of atonement fulfilled in Christ....

#Atonement #Levitical Sacrifice #Roy McDaniel #Sonship #Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture #Theology

Review: Beauty and Resistance A rule of life for those engaged in justice efforts in which beauty and resistance flow from a rested life....

#Jonathan P. Walton #Justice Ministry #Resistance #Rule of Life #Spiritual Formation

Review: Thriving in a Relationship When You Have a Chronic Illness Using ACT therapy, skills to keep relationships strong during chronic illness....

#Acceptance and Commitment Therapy #Chronic Illness #Lisa Gray #Stages of Grief

The Weekly Wrap: July 5-11 My reading bubble, reading declines, excess books, faith conversations, professors, The Millions summer preview....

#Curated literary articles #Excess books #Faith conversations #Musings #Professors #Quotes #Reading declines #The Millions

Review: The Gospel After Christendom An intro to cultural apologetics, explaining how it is done and in what context, and what questions it answers....

#Christian Apologetics #Collin Hansen #Cultural apologetics #Ivan Mesa #Skyler R. Flowers

Review: Reading the Bible on Turtle Island A reading of scripture that takes North American indigenous culture and experience seriously....

#Biblical studies #H. Daniel Zacharias #Hermeneutics #Indigenous readings #T. Christopher Hoklotubbe #Turtle Island

Review: The Red and the Green The tangled lives and loves of a Dublin Irish family at the time of the Irish Rebellion of Easter Monday 1916....

#historical fiction #Incestuous relations #Iris Murdoch #Irish Rebellion of 1916

Review: Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace A reflection on the Prayer of St Francis and how we might be transformed into instruments of peace....

#Mark DeYmaz #prayer #Prayer of St. Francis #Spiritual Formation

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