What I’m reading/ watching/ listening to

Part of my (Josh’s) job is to always be learning and growing. If I am always preaching, but have no new ideas/inspiration coming into my life the well dries up fast!

Something I think pretty regularly is “I’d really love for our church to hear/read/watch this!” And so I thought every so often I’d write about things that are helping me grow as a follower of Jesus.

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Tom Holland

I should say up front I haven’t finished this pretty long, but fascinating book by the pop-historian Tom Holland. But what I find fascinating about what I’ve read so far is that Holland is clearly doing two things. 1) Showing a broad overview of the history of Christianity, warts and all. And 2) unapologetically saying that almost all all our current cultural values – even ones we see as being non-religious, even anti-religious – actually are made possible by the influence of Christianity.

The chapter where he talks about Jesus and Paul are worth the read alone. You can find it on Amazon here.

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