As part of Mission Year, I’ve been on a social media fast. This has been amazing. I hate that I’m saying this, since I’ve always been super annoyed by people blasting out that “they’re quitting facebook” or “are so done with instagram,” but honestly I don’t miss that stuff at all. I don’t even miss Reddit. Sorry about it.
Anyways, since I spent two weeks in quarantine without most of my time-killers, I have been reading a ton (I’ve also been reading way too fast, but that’s a different point). I wanted to do a quick review of some of the stuff I’ve read just to help myself process and to reassure my grandmother that her grandson isn’t drifting too far into some wild, unrestrained liberal heresies.
So grandma, here’s what I’ve reading so far, in no particular order:
The Power of Proximity: Moving beyond Awareness to Action, by Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Hunting Park Neighborhood Strategic Plan 20221
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff2
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without hurting the Poor … and Yourself, by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Reading the Bible from the Margins, by Miguel A. De La Torre
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I’m re-reading this one and I’m trying to go a little more slowly this time
One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love, by John Perkins
The Pursuit of God, by A. W. Tozer
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs-Christians Debate, by Justin Lee
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This document was published by Esperanza in 2012 and describes a ten-year plan for developing Hunting Park, the Hispanic community that Esperanza serves ↩︎
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This has been a truly disturbing read that exposes the ability of tech giants like Google and Facebook to influence and control our decision-making ↩︎