A weekly round-up of pieces of note at FF and elsewhere.

This Week at Fare Forward 

Nicholas Carr’s Glass Cage by Inez Tan

Exodus and the Strangeness of God by Stephan Petrany

Harmonizing With My Grandmother by Claire Levis

Fare Forward Friends and Writers: 

A Mess of Help by William Randolph Brafford in Curator Magazine 

Four Things Conservatives Can Get Out of Hip-Hop by Andrew Quinn at The Federalist 

7QT: Faces Back from the Dead, Anxieties Outside Your Head by Leah Libresco at Patheos

Bike Highways Aren’t Any Better For City Streets by Jonathan Coppage in The American Conservative 

Mirror, Mirror by B.D. McClay at The Hedgehog Review 

Other Pieces of Note:

Our Death Mounds by Matthew Milliner at First Things (h/t Enoch Kuo)

The Civic Project of American Christianity by Michael Hanby at First Things (h/t Jose Mena)

Not Religious, Not Spiritual by Anthony Robinson at The Christian Century (h/t Charlie Clark)

I Don’t Know What To Do, You Guys by Fredrik DeBoer

Classic Text of the Week 

Book IV of Augustine’s The City of God (h/t Matt Dugandzic)

“In this book it is proved that the extent and long duration of the Roman empire is to be ascribed, not to Jove or the gods of the heathen, to whom individually scarce even single things and the very basest functions were believed to be entrusted, but to the one true God, the author of felicity, by whose power and judgment earthly kingdoms are founded and maintained.”