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First Links — 9.23.13

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Cancer and Divine Transcendence Michael W. Hannon, Fare Forward The Fraying of Russia’s Church-State Alliance Nadieszda Kizenko, Foreign Affairs Revise Us Again Steve Thorngate, Christian Century An Anabaptist-Reformed Dialogue. Pt. II Richard Mouw & James K.A. Smith, Comment Illusions of . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.20.13

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Roger Scruton’s Church Brian Miller, Juicy Ecumenism The Vanity of American Exceptionalism Richard Gamble, Reason Typical American Family Makes Less Now Than in 1989 Neil Irwin, Wonkblog Perseverance Pays Off for Yankees’ Pitcher Trent Beattie, National Catholic Register Frog’s . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.19.13

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Making Parenthood Pay W. Bradford Wilcox, Atlantic Reconciling Modern Biblical Scholarship With Orthodox Belief Yair Rosenberg,  Tablet How Evil Should a Video Game Allow You to Be? Simon Parkin, New Yorker Nurturing the Sounds of the Orthodox Church Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times Fred . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.18.13

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Let There Be a Linguistic Construct Carl Trueman, Reformation21 Could Emergence Be Hylemorphic? James Chastek, Just Thomism A Bad Bargain George McKenna, Human Life Review Work and Dignity: A Conversation Mike Rose and Matthew Crawford, Hedgehog Review The Coptic Church: Decline, Survival, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.17.13

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On J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus Michael Duffy, The Millions Animal Sacrifice Powered Ancient Jerusalem’s Economy Tia Ghose, Live Science This Man Moved to a Desert Island to Disappear. Here’s What Happened. Kent Russell, New Republic Do Young Catholics Even Understand . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.16.13

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Murray’s Mistake Michael Baxter, America 1922: Modernism’s Year One Mark Braude, Daily Beast Why Are So Many Religion Reporters Quitting? Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion Hannah Arendt, Augustinian Fr. Robert Barron, RealClearReligion Reason, Religion and the Terror Jeremy Jennings, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.13.13

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Fr. Permoli and the First Amendment Hadley Arkes, Catholic Thing Is the Nation-State Dying? Alan Wolfe, Chronicle of Higher Education Baptism by the Holy Spirit and Baptism by the Spirit of the Age Peter Berger, American Interest Finding Others in the Dark Win Bassett,  Los Angeles Review of . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.12.13

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At Ground Zero, a Beacon Diminished James Panero, Wall Street Journal Against Aesthetics William Logan, New Criterion How a Nun Turned a Garage into a Global Network Renée K. Gadoua, Religion & Politics The Church and the Communal Christian William Newton, Blog of the Courtier Loyal . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.11.13

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The Tech Intellectuals Henry Farrell, Democracy Fleeing an Aramaic Town Ruth Sherlock and Magdy Samaan, Telegraph The Libertarian Case for National Service Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry, Cato Unbound The Passing of Mary Philip Jenkins, Anxious Bench N. T. Wright Saves Worship Songs Andrew Byers, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 9.10.13

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The Childfree Life Fr. Robert Barron, RealClearReligion The Immortality Chronicles Adam Leith Gollner, Paris Review James Turrell and ‘The Thing-ness of Light Itself’ Edward Lifson, NPR What You Need to Know About Foucault Elliot Milco, Front Porch Republic Eliot in Pop Music Chris . . . . Continue Reading »