Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
It’s not clear whether Lincoln recalled, or even had read, Adams’s message to Congress in 1825. Both shared, though, this central point: that “liberty is power,” and that “the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.”87 To that end, Lincoln
John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
Peace, Walter Brueggemann
Lisa Sharon Harper • The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
Between 2020 and 2021, the SBC lost nearly 410,000 members. That’s the largest single-year loss in the 170 years of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
A History of the Episcopal Church - Third Revised Edition: Complete through the 78th General Convention
The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Prichard
amazon.com
We had not heard of Jonathan Edwards’s book The Religious Affections (1746). Edwards, America’s first philosopher, based his teaching on St. Augustine’s trinitarian view of man derived from the New Testament. Edwards’s paradigm, Dixon said, was far more useful for clinical psychology than Charles Darwin’s 1872 book The Expressions of the Emotions i
... See moreVishal Mangalwadi • The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
a contrast life aimed at communion.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
If Perkins, the Progressive turned New Dealer, spent her life addressing problems left behind by Greeley’s Civil War generation—corporate power, exploited labor, political corruption, poverty—Rustin spent his battling injustices that the New Deal generation didn’t address: racism, segregation, and the threat of militarism to world peace. No one in
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
In 1966, there were more than 3.4 million Episcopalians. By 2019, that number dropped to 1.7 million, even though the population of the United States nearly doubled from 1960 (when the population was 180 million) to 2020 (when the population was about 330 million).