This Week's Recommendations

  1. How do I help someone see their anger when they can’t see it themselves? Ed Welch answers, “It’s difficult for at least two reasons. One is that angry people tend not to see their anger as a problem, because anger tends to feel like a righteous reaction against some kind of injustice. Another is that angry people, they can combust in a moment.” 

  2. How were the biblical Psalms originally performed? Marek Dospel asks, “How much do we really know about how biblical psalms were originally performed? What might a psalm performance have looked like in the First Temple period, around 900 B.C.E.?” 

  3. The restoration of post-Christian America: Tom Terry shares, “In three key areas—Bible engagement, engagement by men, and Christian media impact—we have encouraging signs that America’s post-Christian fact may soon become a myth.” 

  4. The 9 worst years in history to be alive: Alex Andonovska takes on this thought experiment with the help of historians. It seems to me that the list is far too slanted toward contemporary history, although it’s only been in the past few hundred years that the world has been enmeshed enough to have events that truly impact the whole globe. Number 1 and 2 seem pretty indisputable, in my opinion, though.  

  5. Hajime Miura wins his 8th yo yo world championship: You’ve never seen yo yo like this.  

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