Wear is the Love, Episode 22It’s been a rough week. Michael recaps the May 24th primaries, and then we discuss the aftermath of all these shootings. We don’t have answers, and we can’t put a bow on things, but maybe the episode is a place for grief? We’re not sure. Take care, dear friends.Michael & MelissaP.S. Don’t forget that this past week we launched The Morning Five. Our hope is that it might be the kind of quick listen that helps you situate your day, and the events of the day, within the scope of God’s grace. Maybe listen to it while you drive the kids to school as a way to pray together and think together. We’re experimenting with it for now, but will likely make it available on Apple Podcasts and other podcast services soon. New episodes every mornng, Monday-Thursday.Episode notes:Slow Cooker Pork Tacos with Hoisin and GingerHenri Nouwen devotional: “The Blessing Hidden in Grief”Liz Bruenig’s pieces in The Atlantic: “78 Minutes” and “A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future”“Police inaction moves to center of Uvalde shooting probe” (AP)The Top 5 articles for your week:“A Gentler Christendom” (First Things Magazine)Because Ross Douthat writes on Jacques Maritain and how to handle the decline of Christianity. “For those with ears to hear, these are the practical lessons of the recent Christian past, and especially of our own country’s history. Religious power wielded wisely and mildly and indirectly, with due respect to liberty and diversity and a focus first on the faith’s internal health and zeal, can sustain a religious ascendancy for many ­generations. But religious power wielded too much against pluralism, with political ambition substituting for real faithfulness, will corrupt and enervate and bring about its own reward.”“What Progress Wants” (The Abbey of Misrule - Substack)Because “The Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce saw the modern era as a thorough and permanent revolution - a radical break with the human past. He defined a modern person as ‘someone who thinks that “today it is no longer possible…”’ We do not tend to see our time as continuous with what has gone before…By sweeping away old ways of thinking, seeing and living, modernity has produced ‘a type of violence capable of breaking the continuum of history.’”“The Rotten Core of Our Political System” (The Atlantic)Because we’re reading the new book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future” and enjoyed this review from George Packer.“Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex” (The New Republic)https://anchor.fm/wear-we-are/support