🎵 Listening to Copper State, an Arizona-inspired, jazz-country album from Arthur Vint & Associates released today. It’s great. (HT: Tucson Sentinel)
While working on my upcoming sermons for 1 Samuel this morning, I heard a new version of the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto released last month by Chloe Chua and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. As I’ve been preparing for those sermons, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to read narratives well. So it caught my attention when I read in the Apple Music notes that Chloe Chua describes her role on the violin in the pieces on this album as that of a narrator telling a story.
What do you you mean when you say “I forgive you”? What commitments should you be making to the other person?
NASA Guide to Air-filtering Houseplants infographic by lovethegarden.
What are you missing when you read a good translation of the Bible instead of the original? This is hard question to answer, but biblical scholar J. P. Fokkelman gives the best answer I’ve read.
Interesting stat regarding the recent Arizona primary elections: “Statewide, there were 131 races with only one candidate, which comes to about one-fourth of all the seats that were up for grabs in the primary elections.” (Tucson Agenda)
Finished reading: Bridge-Building Apologetics by Lindsey Medenwaldt. Audio available on Libby. 📚