I am going to be offering period reminders that, if you’ve read and appreciated Seasons of Sorrow, leaving a review (or even a simple star rating) at Amazon will take just a few seconds and be a big help. There are a few new Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: Turnaround) We Are Not Disposable This is such a good and important article from Samuel James’ Substack (which is well worth a subscription). “I’ve written before about Facebook, and how the Facebook of my freshman year of college seems almost like a dream that I had one time. The idea of a website whose only ethic was friendship and only currency was neighborliness seems too ridiculous now to say out loud. But that was really how it was back then.” Preaching a Funeral of a Nonbeliever (Video) Hershael York has some wise counsel on how pastors should approach preaching the funerals of nonbelievers. Shia LaBeouf and the Church as Sales Pitch “In preparing for the lead role in a movie about Padre Pio (an Italian Franciscan friar later canonized as a saint), the actor Shia LaBeouf, best known for Transformers, lived for a time in a monastery, submitted to several spiritual mentors, and then converted to Catholicism.” Trevin Wax considers a couple of his comments from a recent interview. Who’s More Sinful: Men or Women? You probably know the answer to the question: neither. But John Piper’s answer covers quite a lot of interesting territory and is worth reading. Is the Future of Christian … Continue reading Weekend A La Carte (September 17)