Snippet: "Christ as much as Loki"

snip·pet | ˈsnipit | noun a small piece or brief extract.

This is from a letter by a 17-year-old skeptic to a friend:

“All religions, that is, all mythologies, to give them their proper name, are merely man’s own invention—Christ as much as Loki. …Superstition of course in every age has held the common people, but in every age the educated and thinking ones have stood outside it, though usually outwardly conceded to it for convenience.”

Read the whole letter and the whole article here: “Letter from a Teenage Anti-Christian Skeptic” by Randy Newman. The catch is it’s a letter written by 17-year-old C.S. Lewis. Really encouraging article.

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Snippet: "Hello, my name is wolf."

snip·pet | ˈsnipit | noun a small piece or brief extract.

Here’s Skye Jethani interviewing the authors of a book on healthy and toxic church leaders on the Holy Post podcast:

“It feels to me that an awful lot of us in the evangelical church don't even have the discernment to recognize a wolf when the wolf is in wolf’s clothing. We don't recognize the wolf when he's got a name tag that says, ‘Hello, my name is wolf.’ We don’t see it, let alone the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

This quote is a provocative aside in the interview. Maybe not that much of an aside because the authors and Jethani spend some time talking about some aspects of current evangelical church culture and Christianity that blind us to what is sometimes obvious.

But the interview actually focuses on how difficult it actually is when the wolf is in sheep’s clothing. I commend it to you if the tragic failures of the likes of Bill Hybels, Mark Driscoll, and Ravi Zacharius have left you shaken to the core (episode 472).

For processing this kind of thing, I also recommend Mike Cosper’s multi-episode podcast, “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.”

Some day I should find and suggest even more resources, but these have been helpful to me lately.

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