The Top 5: Keller on Forgiveness in the NYT
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The Top 5 articles for your week:
“What Too Little Forgiveness Does To Us” (NYT)
Because Tim Keller writes in The New York Times, “we owe it to others to forgive because we all need forgiveness ourselves.”
“Where God dwelt” (Aeon Magazine)
Because this is a fun little history of heaven as a physical place in the cosmos. “If I asked my astronomy students where heaven was located, I would no doubt receive a classroom full of bewildered stares, despite the fact that I teach at a Christian university – where the majority of students believe in both heaven and the afterlife. When pressed, they might offer thoughts about heaven being a different plane of reality or perhaps another dimension. They believe, but they don’t conceptualise heaven as a location; it is not a part of their spatial understanding of the universe. For most of the history of Christianity, though, the opposite was true.”
“The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy” (Wired)
Because scientists are getting closer to figuring out “suspended animation” for long trips in space.
“Woman. Life. Freedom.” (Substack - The Gallery Companion)
Because art and imagery are playing a huge role in the protests in Iran.
“The Deep Rewards — and Tangled Legal History — of Living With Extended Family” (Washington Post Magazine)
Because this is our final ode (and thanks!) to the now-defunct Washington Post Magazine. Their reporter spent some time with an intergenerational family in Fairfax, VA. “Yet in the time I spent with them, I kept thinking they’d discovered something here that is old but lost: Family. Support. Togetherness. Not just occasional get-togethers or holiday meals, but living as a unit, beyond the nuclear family. When Max’s grandmother died, it was not in a nursing home or a hospital. She died in her son’s home.
But the biggest benefits may be for Max and Jonah’s kids. Younger children in intergenerational housing “demonstrate more interactive and cooperative play, increased empathy and mood management, and improved academic performance,” the Center for Aging Research and Education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison reports.”
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