Excellent book!

“In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.”

Uri Berliner on his outlet’s shift from “curious” and “open-minded” to “knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.” thefp.pub/4aJXNk4

New AppleTV+ documentary ‘Girls State’—companion film to 2020’s ‘Boys State’—provides a fascinating, instructive look at the developing political ideologies of Gen Z women. For The Gospel Coalition I wrote about some of the implications for the abortion debate especially. thegospelcoalition.org/article/girls-…

I loved Spence Spencer’s ‘Hope for God’s Creation.’ We need more books like this written by conservative Christians. It shouldn’t be the case that environmental stewardship is a partisan issue owned almost entirely by the secular left.

Along with the car, I would venture that the Pill is the 20th-century technology that has most shaped our values and our view of what it means to be human. So, why do evangelicals hardly ever talk about it? I make the case ⁦The Gospel Coalition⁩ that we need to. thegospelcoalition.org/article/pill-o…

Appearances of the resurrected Jesus:

–Judea
–Galilee
–town
–countryside
–indoors
–outdoors
–morning
–evening
–by appointment
–no appointment
–hill
–lake
–to men groups
–to women groups
–to individuals
–to 500
–sitting
–standing
–walking
–eating
–talking

(via Peter J. Williams)

Yesterday I was crucified with Christ
Today I am glorified with him.
Yesterday I was dead with Christ
Today I am sharing in his resurrection.
Yesterday I was buried with him.
Today I am walking with him from the sleep of death.

—Gregory of Nazianzus (fourth century)

It’s the biggest news story of your life, or any life.

But many of us scroll past it, drawn instead to ephemeral clickbait & all manner of infinitely less newsworthy items.

The “old news” of Christ’s resurrection doesn’t serve the algorithm’s interests.
thegospelcoalition.org/article/scroll…

Can you remember any top world news headlines from April 9, 2023? What about headlines from April 17, 2022, or April 4, 2021? Probably 2020 was the only Easter in recent memory when you might remember what was happening in the world—but even that will fade from memory sooner than…

“You are incontestably alive. Your murderers sowed your living body in the earth as farmers sow grain, but it sprang up and yielded an abundant harvest of people raised from the dead.”

—Ephrem of Syria (fourth century)

“God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us. If it is God’s wrath that needed to be propitiated, it is God’s love that did the propitiating.”

—John Stott, The Cross of Christ

Terrence Malick’s biblical epic ‘The Way of the Wind’—which the unhurried director has been editing for the last four years—is likely to release in 2025. thefilmstage.com/exclusive-terr…

Prayers > punditry

If you’re looking for a new movie to watch that’s thoughtful, well-made, and model virtues worth celebrating, check out some of my recommendations here. thegospelcoalition.org/article/8-edif…

Something new I wrote. Just the thoughts of a dad while watching his son play baseball. brettmccracken.com/blog/2024/3/14…

Now that #WheresKate is over, the internet must manufacture another bizarre pseudo event to captivate the scrolling masses and sustain online publishing economics for at least a few more weeks.

I haven’t seen and won’t see #PoorThings . But it’s illustrative of Hollywood’s moral confusion about gender and sex that a film like this would be the second-most celebrated at the #Oscars .

Here’s a good overview of the film’s debased view of sexuality: capstewart.substack.com/p/the-impoveri…

Glad ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ won best documentary. What a harrowing, gut-wrenching example of documenting difficult history in real time—history some might wish went undocumented.

“Cinema forms memories, and memories form history.”

#Oscars2024

Godzilla Minus One was my favorite movie of the year. Glad it’s an Oscar winner. Much deserved.