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After last week’s Israeli attacks hit a Gaza City church where hundreds had taken shelter, Christians fear they have nowhere safe to flee. |
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For thousands of Afghan refugees, their long journey to safety ends in Brazil, where churches have made a home for them. |
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This week on The Bulletin, the crew discusses distractions from Jeffrey Epstein, the couple caught at a Coldplay concert, and the plight of Christians in Gaza. |
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From news editor Daniel Silliman: I occasionally get to teach a “great books” class at a Christian college in my area. It makes life a little complicated, doing a side job while working for CT, but it’s a joy to interact with a bunch of 18-year-olds, and I also love the opportunity to revisit and re-wrestle with some weird old books that are core to the Western canon. |
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If you don’t get adjunct opportunities but would also like to try (or retry) engaging some of these ancient texts, here are three I’ve gotten a lot out of as an adult: |
- The Epic of Gilgamesh. This story was written by pressing a stylus into clay (like, a million times) and I think anything that someone worked that hard to write probably has to be worth at least checking out? Also, Gilgamesh addresses the deep, urgent, timeless question “If you know you’re going to die, is it worth being alive?” There are several answers in the text, and I won’t spoil it for you, but one of them is “yes because bread is great.” I recommend the excellent Sophus Helle translation.
- The Odyssey. After the Bible, nothing is more influential than Homer, and the story here also feels really relevant. Society has started to break down, and people don’t know if they can trust basic rules of hospitality or information they get about the world. That seems … familiar? The epic can unsettle readers in profound ways.
- Augustine’s Confessions. I hated this when I was 18. Then I read it again in my 30s and realized I was wrong and Augustine had some powerful things to say. The book is deeply evangelical (basically his testimony about God working in his life), is composed as a prayer, and proposes that what’s wrong with the world is that people love wrong—the wrong stuff, the wrong direction, the wrong amount. That spoke to me and might to you too.
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Today in Christian History |
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July 25, 325: The Council of Nicea closes. The first ecumenical council, convened by Constantine, it rejected the Arians (who denied the full divinity of Christ) as heretics (see issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church). |
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More of a good thing is not necessarily better. And what starts as a good thing may not stay that way. This is a lesson we’ve had to learn and…
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Beth is back for mo(o)re. It’s been a couple of years since Beth Moore has been on the show, so it was high time to catch up with her. Russell…
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This piece was adapted from a newsletter series for Inkwell and written by former CT NextGen fellow Chris Kuo. Subscribe to the Inkwell Substack here. Storytelling calls to me because…
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Donna Gail Shaw is up a tree, her holstered .44 revolver sometimes grazing the bark as she adjusts a game camera and describes the time she almost got between a…
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As developments in artificial intelligence change daily, we’re increasingly asking what makes humanity different from the machines we use. In this issue, Emily Belz introduces us to tech workers on the frontlines of AI development, Harvest Prude explains how algorithms affect Christian courtship, and Miroslav Volf writes on the transhumanist question. Several writers call our attention to the gifts of being human: Haejin and Makoto Fujimura point us to beauty and justice, Kelly Kapic reminds us God’s highest purpose isn’t efficiency, and Jen Pollock Michel writes on the effects of Alzheimer’s . We bring together futurists, theologians, artists, practitioners, and professors to consider how technology shapes us even as we use it. |
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