Weekend Reads 9/17/16

Hello Goodbye

Harris has absorbed these criticisms over the years but says he hasn’t had the bandwidth to respond to them until recently. Quitting his high-pressure job to start school was one step, and so was seeing his children become teenagers. "What I was writing about was 'Avoid this pain, avoid these mistakes, don’t do these things,' " he told me. "Is that really how we grow as human beings?"

This election’s faith-based candidate

"The Scripture tells us that faith without works is dead," she said. "The Epistle of James tells us we cannot just be hearers of the Word, we must be doers." Clinton explained that she embraced "an activist social justice faith , a roll-up-your-sleeves and get-your-hands-dirty faith."

When his beautiful wedding photos were used for a racist meme, this man fought back

Adam had one small option left to correct the internet's digital cache of his own history: share his reaction on the internet again, for free, and hope as many strangers saw the response as saw the meme in the first place.

What’s Wrong with Western Missionaries?

Finally, one of the men leaned across the table toward me and said forcefully, "You want to know why we love him? We love him because he borrows money from us!"