Thanks for a good year

Plus: a question, a few reads, and merry Christmas!

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, but I’m off this week, including from this Substack. Still, since this is the last email of the year, I wanted to send a quick note to thank you for reading over these last 12 months. I appreciate it.

Also, now that I’m at the one-year mark for my regular format and schedule, let me know what you think: Is it working? Is there an item of the normal five you find more (or less) useful or interesting? Are there topics you wish I’d cover more or less often? Let me know (AMA subsmissions also still welcome):

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And here are a few reads for you:

• Filthy night, fetid night, by Carrie McKean at Christianity Today

• His law is love and his gospel is peace, by Yohanna Katanacho at Christianity Today

• We’re beginning to learn how the war on terror shaped a generation, by Suzy Hansen at The New York Times

• It sure looks like phones are making students dumber, by Derek Thompson at The Atlantic

• This innocent woman is on the hook for thousands after a SWAT team destroyed her home, by Billy Binion at Reason

• This gorilla’s caregivers face familiar questions about aging, by Paula Span at The New York Times

• In your face, by John Fechtel at The New Atlantis

• A practical guide to perpetual peace, by Stephen M. Walt at Foreign Policy

• Conversions, Protestantism, and a new mainline, by Brad East

• Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem muted amid war, by Omar Abdel-Baqui and Tanya Habjouqa at The Wall Street Journal

• Hebrews 1:1-3, 2:14-15

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