{"id":116802,"date":"2025-01-30T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=116802"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:43:05","slug":"a-la-carte-january-31-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=116802","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (January 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9b04909b-6941-419a-b6fc-01690d4228c5\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books has a couple of specials this week that may be of interest. The first is a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/every-believer-confident?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">new book on apologetics<\/a> while the second is an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/esv-holy-bible-dyslexia-friendly-edition?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\">edition of the Bible<\/a> that has been specially formatted to be helpful to dyslexics. <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"36c75dcb-503c-48ef-9d28-97e102a5cdbe\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include Jackie Hill Perry&#8217;s <em>Upon Waking<\/em> (1800 ratings on Amazon with a 4.9-star average!), David Mathis&#8217; <em>Humbled<\/em>, and quite a few others. It&#8217;s a good day to give the list a look!<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"62b8b34a-79b9-49a5-8943-d00245f3f2fc\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/new-and-notable-christian-books-for-january-2025\/\">New and Notable Christian Books<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/dune-female-gaze\">How Dune Reflects Our Cultural Divide Over Female Moral Authority<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b863bd84-0abf-4831-92f7-f3246c1256f7\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I haven&#8217;t seen <em>Dune: Part Two<\/em>, but was still fascinated by this article. &#8220;The character of Chani in Dennis Villenueve\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dune: Part Two <\/em>is a perfect example of the modern archetype of women as men\u2019s conscience. But her story also parallels the likely failure of any culture-wide attempt to tame men through women\u2019s moral influence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/revdaveharvey.com\/2025\/01\/30\/three-lies-that-separate-spouses\/\">Three Lies That Separate Spouses<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8b0871f4-d5ba-4ba0-abec-1a6dc9b0a507\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave Harvey describes three lies that separate spouses. &#8220;It happens every day. A husband refuses to forgive his wife, because she just can\u2019t see\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0the sins he ascribes to her. A wife won\u2019t reconcile with her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Dune and female moral authority \/ Three lies that separate spouses \/ Sin makes you stupid \/ Can a fallen pastor be restored? \/ Evaluating Trump&#8217;s first week of executive actions \/ A future for the family \/ Book and Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (November 4)A La Carte (October 8)A La Carte (July 1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":116818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-116802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-a-la-carte","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cover-a-la-carte-fri-a-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116820,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116802\/revisions\/116820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}