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First Links — 11.20.13

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Surviving a Religious Cleansing Mollie Hemingway, Federalist Squeak and Gibber John Crowley, Lapham’s Quarterly Who Was John Tavener, Anyway? Paul Elie, Everything That Rises A Postscript to Peter Steinfels George McKenna, Human Life Review The Sacred Subdivision Deborah Justice, Marginalia . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.19.13

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Still in the World Joe Carter, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission Crops, Towns, Government James C. Scott, London Review of Books Defending ‘Branch Theory’ Fr. Jonathan,  Conciliar Anglican Sex and the Polis: A Symposium Christopher Fisher,  Intercollegiate Review . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.18.13

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Aquinas and Natural Science James Chastek, Just Thomism Bring Them In: On Prisons and the Poor Sen. Mike Lee We Believe in Institutions James K. A. Smith, Comment Three Kinds of Hope Stratford Caldecott, Imaginative Conservative Lewis Joins Poet’s Corner Iona McLaren, Telegraph . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.15.13

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Mill and Cannabis Peter Hitchens, ABC Religion & Ethics The Least Known Masterpiece of European Literature Adam Kirsch, New Republic Lou Reed and the Iconography of Rock and Roll Ethan McCarthy, Christ and Pop Culture TOMS Shoes and the Spiritual Politics of Neoliberalism Lucia Hulsether, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.14.13

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Last Meals Brent Cunningham, Lapham’s Quarterly The Local, Universal Master Ingrid D. Rowland, New York Review of Books The Last Jew in Afghanistan Jessica Donati & Mirwais Harooni, Reuters The Boring Word in Theology Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed Jesuits, Dominicans, and the Reformation Br. . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.13.13

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Hunting in Medieval Literature Katherine Correa, Medievalists.net Find the Bad Guy Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker Oh Good Grief! Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Books & Culture How the Left Spun the Kennedy Myth Ira Stoll, Book Beast United Methodists, Pessimism, and God’s Surprises Mark Tooley, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.12.13

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Evangelical Crisis of Authority R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Gospel Coalition Atheist Megachurches Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Tedious Twain David Grylls, New Statesman Monasticism and Marriage Chris Armstrong, Grateful to the Dead The Death of Writing, and Its Impact on Our Politics Chuck Raasch, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.8.13

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History without Hermeneutics Thomas Pfau,  Immanent Frame John Donne’s Preaching Style Virtual Paul’s Cross Project What Dido Did, Satan Saw, and O’Keeffe Painted Mark Bauerlein, New Criterion Should the Pro-Life Strategy Stress Implantation or Conception? Robert Vega, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.7.13

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Generation Fear Sophie Waugh, Spectator On Joshua Greene’s “Deep Pragmatism” Thomas Nagel, New Republic Faulkner’s Cocktail of Choice Robert Moore, Paris Review The Passion of Flannery O’Connor James Parker, Atlantic Christendom, Dead [video] Mark Driscoll, Resurgence . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.6.13

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Nature and God in Ethics Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse Developing Genre: St. Augustine and David Foster Wallace Bradley M. Peper, Marginalia The Good News About Power James K. A. Smith, Comment The Evolution of Evolutionary Language Peggy Rosenthal,  Good Letters The Sherlock Holmes of . . . . Continue Reading »