Weekly Digest: The Three Worlds Model Continues on the March

Welcome to my weekly digest for June 10, 2022.

For new subscribers, this contains a roundup of my recent writings and podcasts, as well as links to the best articles from around the web this week. You can control what emails you get from me by visiting your account page.

My next monthly deep dive newsletter comes out on Monday.

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New Content and Media Mentions

First Things published an adaptation of my post on the SBC abuse report.

I was on Josh Daws podcast talking about the three worlds model. I was also on one of the Crosspolitic podcasts talking about political conservatism.

Trevin Wax continues with his series that engages with my three worlds model. It’s about contextualizing Tim Keller. Bethel McGrew chimed in with some thoughts of her own in a two part series. See part one and part two.

Janie B. Cheaney mentioned me in her World magazine column on being alive in the negative world.

Also new this week:

• I wrote about conservatives’ missing link on gender roles. This is useful pre-reading for my monthly newsletter that comes out Monday.

• My podcast this week is about the quest for legacy. I explore our desires to inherit and pass on family traditions and heirlooms, and how that romantic vision often collides with reality. I got a ton of emails about this one, so it really resonated with people. Subscribers can read the transcript.

• I also did an experimental live discussion with Paul Vanderklay and Bethel McGrew in front of an audience at an event in Wheaton this week. We discussed the state of the church. Due to travel this week, I will be posting the transcript of this next week.

My regular podcast will return on Monday as well. You can listen to my podcast on Apple, Google, or YouTube.

Best of the Web

Scott Yenor wrote about his experience with a Title IX tribunal at Boise State. If the SBC adopts its sexual abuse task force recommendations, expect similar experiences in that denomination (or maybe even worse).

Tom Gilson: Five Key Points for the Southern Baptist Convention Vote on Sexual Abuse Response - this author formerly worked as an HR investigator for Cru.

Congress for New Urbanism: A call to rethink dying houses of worship