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Seven of the best articles I came across this week:

1. Michael Ward – C.S. Lewis and the Art of DisagreementLewis is a helpful example to consult when considering how to interact with people one disagrees with in an academic environment.

2. Fantastic review by James K. A. Smith of R. R. Reno’s Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. “To build a civilization of love” that Reno rightly calls for is equally—and even more importantly— about building communities of Christian practice that provide the scaffolding, the jigs, that relieve both the malaise and the burden of unfettered freedom, showing our neighbors how to live in the grooves of creaturely flourishing. 

3. Mindy Belz – What Persecuted Syrians Can Teach Us About American PoliticsThe disciples’ willingness to labor together—though once strangers, even enemies—is the ground we walk on in our churches. It’s the way forward from this bruising season.

4. Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra – How Fidel Castro’s Death Will Affect Cuba’s Christian RevivalFidel’s brother Raúl still operates effectively as a dictator. And the leash is still short for Protestant churches.

5. Matt Smethurst – 5 Christian Cliches That Need to DieYes. Let’s kill these, Church.

6. Luke Bobo – Respect for Dangerous Work. An African-American critical of the police enrolls in a Citizens Police Academy and gains respect for dangerous work.

7. Thom Rainer – 7 Myths about a Pastor’s Workweek.

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