The Faith & Culture 5
Snoop Dogg’s Gospel Album + The Next Pope + Surviving the Age of Extinction + More
Happy Friday!
In a world of endless open tabs and information overload, let me do the heavy lifting of sifting through it all. Each week, The Faith & Culture 5 brings you five hand-picked pieces of exceptional content plus one book recommendation that are genuinely worth your attention.
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Now, onto The Faith & Culture 5:
While we can’t guarantee the world won’t end tomorrow, we can at least provide a little perspective, hope and suggestions of positive action. Here, then, is how to cheer up. Because it might never happen.
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence — threatens an especially comprehensive cull
This Sunday, the rap icon will release Altar Call, a 21-track gospel album on Death Row Records. The project serves as a tribute to his late mother, Beverly Tate, and features an all-star lineup including Jamie Foxx, Robert Glasper, Jazze Pha, Denaun Porter, October London and more.
In that small chapel by a freeway in Arkansas, Lauren knew the potency of believing, really believing, that she had a certain place in the cosmos. That she was eternally loved. That life made sense. Or that it would, one day, for sure.
She had that, and she left it all.
The College of Cardinals will meet in conclave in the Sistine Chapel to debate and then vote for their preferred candidates until a single name prevails.
With 80% of the cardinals appointed by Pope Francis himself, they are not only electing a pope for the first time, but will offer a broad global perspective.
Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones
In Ordinary Time, Annie challenges the idea that loud lives matter most. Rummaging through her small-town existence, she finds hidden gifts of humor and hope from a life lived quietly. Staying, can itself be a radical act. It takes courage to stay in the places we’ve always called home, Annie argues, as she paints a portrait of possibility far away from thriving metropolises and Monica Gellar-inspired apartments.
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Jm
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