Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from August 2017.
Category Archives: Spirituality
The Big Sick: a film with much more appeal than its name
Based on a true story, The Big Slick provides a realistic depiction of a cross-cultural relationship, and i doing so deals with some pretty serious subjects – racism, unemployment, relational breakdown, major illness, and the importance of condones honesty, tenacity and love through thick and thin.
Seven Pillars to Understanding the Future: Final Pillar Number Seven
A Tale of Two Gileads: Legalism and Grace in the Eyes of Attwood and Robinson
Like the best futurist literature, The Handmaid’s Tale shouldn’t be dismissed as mere fantasy. But lest we confuse fundamentalism with the freeing fundamentals of Christian faith, a comparison with Marilynne Robinson’s depiction in Gilead of humble-Christ-like love and service is a good antidote. Will they turn Robinson’s Gilead into a TV series?
Why does The Handmaid’s Tale and our witness of this perhaps-not-so-fantastical tale matter?
I often feel very limited in my impact on society when I am confronted with the issues presented in The Handmaid’s Tale. But after reading Beauty Will Save the World I am reminded that it truly is the small moments focused on the love and care of Jesus that can make the difference. What if the greatest act of subversion was to care for others?
Why does The Handmaid’s Tale and our witness of this perhaps-not-so-fantastical tale matter?
I often feel very limited in my impact on society when I am confronted with the issues presented in The Handmaid’s Tale. But after reading Beauty Will Save the World I am reminded that it truly is the small moments focused on the love and care of Jesus that can make the difference. What if the greatest act of subversion was to care for others?
Link highlights | July 2017
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from July 2017.
When tolerance is not OK
Tolerance is a good thing, but it can end up meaning that nothing is sinful. Often, too, our ‘tolerance’ only extends to those within our own tribe – we tolerate what we agree with and hate everything else.
The Handmaid’s Tale: a thistopian dystopia
The Handmaid’s Tale: a timely indictment of conservative religion
Far from being ‘anti-Christian’, The Handmaid’s Tale series warns against three key dangers for the church: graceless religion, tolerating abuse and engaging in moral hypocrisy. We would do well to heed its message.