Good morning. May the Lord bless and keep you throughout this day. There’s a small but still good list of Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: We Are Never Without Beauty) Do You Know Where You’re At? Sylvia Schroeder reflects on her father-in-law’s confusion. “‘I don’t know where we’re at,’ Phil’s dad used to say from the front seat of his handicapped van. In his later days my father-in-law, sweet and intelligent seemed to live in an anxious state of lost. He leaned far forward against the taut seatbelt, and peered with squinted eyes at the road ahead. The road he’d traveled many times had not changed. Then he turned toward his son, my husband at the wheel. ‘I have no idea where we’re at. Do you know where we’re at?’” Where We Draw the Line Alistair Begg: “For centuries in the West, and perhaps particularly in the United States, Christians have enjoyed being in the rooms where things happen. But now the wind of society is less at our backs and more in our faces. For the first time, perhaps, we need to learn how to live well in Babylon.” Deepfakes and the Degradation of Truth Jason Thacker looks at what I’m sure will soon prove to be an extremely important issue: deepfakes and the degradation of truth. The Take Trap Samuel James coins and explains a term: the take trap. “A take trap is a situation in which the perceived benefits of forming an opinion on something quickly and sharing that opinion … Continue reading A La Carte (August 19)