Books and Quotations

The Real Good News

By Matt Erickson

“To recover the old, authentic, biblical gospel, and to bring our preaching and practice back into line with it, is perhaps our most pressing present need.” J. I. Packer wrote these words in his 1958 introduction to a reprint of John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ.

Empathy and the Drive to Belong

By Matt Erickson

Alan Hirsch first brought the following video clip from bestselling author and political adviser Jeremy Rifkin to my attention. In it, Rifkin investigates the development of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our society.

One of the most powerful concepts that Rifkin highlights is that the drive to belong is a more primary drive than the drive toward self-protection.

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