Not Suitable for Family Time! The Crown has been thrilling — watching (sometimes fictionalized) tensions behind closed doors at Buckingham Palace — but a different Netflix account of “royalty” at the same intersection, that of money, power, and fame is equally thrilling: Peaky Blinders. Like other shows with a cult-like following, Peaky Blinders boasts a...
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On the treadmill last week, at an hour when only werewolves and swim parents are awake, I listened to Pete Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast and heard him say, discussing the temptations of Jesus, the phrase “up and to the right.” And I realized, listening to the discussion: there’s Hinduism, Islam, Christianity… but do you...
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Ragebait, oversimplification, irrationality, and petulance…. Our tribalist and instantly outraged culture has, of course, many causes and few quick solutions. As Charley Warzel noted about one particularly outrageous tweet in a nice piece about the online portrayals of Simone Biles’ withdrawal from the Olympic All Around, “Click on it, and you will learn nothing. You...
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It is easy for Christians to shy away from power. Jesus Christ, the author of our faith, was essentially homeless and devoid of any earthly authority while in this world. He commanded us to turn the other cheek when attacked. When all expected him to deal a giant blow to Rome, he rode into Jerusalem...
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In the wake of a Facebook post that offended many Asian American believers, Jody Wiley Fernando asks whether American majority culture evangelicals can gain not more finely tuned cultural competencies, but rather adopt a posture of cultural humility.
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