1. COVID Vaccines May Work, but are They Safe? I appreciate this well-considered conversation of vaccines by Dr. Charles Horton at World. He explains how the vaccines work and whether or not they are ethically sourced. If you like this piece, I recommend subscribing to the World and Everything In It podcast.
2. When Looking for a Church, Beware the ‘Right Fit’: Excellent piece by Australian pastor, Murray Campbell. He shares, “There are good reasons for joining and leaving a church, and not so good reasons. There are sensible reasons and sinful reasons. But among the most common is what I often call a spiritualized version of natural selection.”
3. In Praise of the Average Pastor: Darryl Dash with a moving post. He begins, “Few search committees look for one. Few young men aspire to become one. But it’s what most churches need. I’m grateful for the average pastor.”
4. Should We Expect Our Jobs to Make us Happy? Barnabas Piper uses a great metaphor of weak household hooks and compares them to the weight of our happiness we try to hang on our jobs.
5. Do Not Trust Your Anger: Ray Ortlund begins, “Our world, including our Christian circles, gives us opportunities galore for anger. It’s not as though provocations lie on only one side of the theological, political, or cultural divides. Bob Dylan was right: ‘Everything is broken.’ No wonder, then, that a whole lot can light the fuse of our anger.”
6. Think Twice Before Changing Churches: 2020 might feel like exactly the right time to change churches. Ivan Mesa argues why that isn’t the case. He concludes, “Sometimes faithfulness means walking out. More often than not, though, it means staying put.”
