Pieces about the apostle Paul, the Buffalo shooting, and other important topics.
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** Dealing with complexity.
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I wrote last week’s Editors’ Picks email while still somewhat in shock about the Buffalo mass shooting. I closed the email with a prompt for you let me know if you think there is a way to actually reduce gun violence in the US.
Your responses were mixed (and I appreciated each one). Some people are, frankly, in despair over this problem. Others do have some practical ideas, but most fall into the category (abyss?) of “easier said than done.” The responses together reaffirmed for me that, while some aspects of the issue may seem simple, any way forward will be very complicated.
Case in point: the same day of that email, the Century posted a Jewish scholar’s reflection ([link removed]) on the shooting. The response to his article has been intense and polarized.
We have several other recent pieces that explore complex topics: a review of a book that is severely critical of Paul ([link removed]) , a chronicle of an ally’s faltering attempts ([link removed]) to practice solidarity, and the sin that resides in social media algorithms ([link removed]) . And I appreciate this poem about the enduring power of human stories ([link removed]) .
Email me: In the midst of all this complexity, what is something that is blessedly simple?
Jon Mathieu
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This week’s top articles:
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** The mass shooting in Buffalo was an attack on the image of God ([link removed])
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“That is the essence of comfort and consolation in the Jewish tradition: to sit with the mourner and to say nothing, so that the mourner knows that they are not alone in standing for the human dignity of their loved one.”
by Yehiel E. Poupko
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** Dethroning the canonical Paul ([link removed])
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“Regarding Paul, Concannon’s greatest contribution lies in dismantling attempts to apply lipstick to a turd.”
Greg Carey reviews Cavan Concannon
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** Driving my trans student to Planned Parenthood ([link removed])
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“As we sat and talked, Kolby said he was ready to get hormone replacement therapy. But the cheapest and safest HRT source was a Planned Parenthood clinic two and a half hours away… I found myself making an offer.”
by Teri McDowell Ott
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** Living by the Word for May 29 (Easter 7C) ([link removed])
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I want to know why grace was extended to the Philippian jailer but not the slave.
by Greg Carey
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** Devil in the algorithm ([link removed])
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“The social media algorithm prods and incentivizes individuals to be their worst selves—by design, because that’s what most engages others. Christians have a word for this sort of problem: sin.”
by the editors
** On the persistence of lies and poetry ([link removed])
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“Of course we all know Adorno said that after Auschwitz
poetry as we know it is senseless. The world keeps on
stumbling into the flames . . .”
poem by Linda Mills Woolsey
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