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First Links — 7.26.13

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As Wise as Pigeons Anthony Esolen, Crisis At St. Catherine’s Amid Egyptian Unrest Ladan Cher, Time “The Mystery of Life” Makes Law a Mystery William Haun, Public Discourse Church of England vs. Payday Lenders Katrina Bishop, CNBC The Root of Evil William T. Cavanaugh, America . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.25.13

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Islam’s Medieval Underworld Smithsonian You Can’t Have Jesus Without the Christ Anthony Sacramone, Strange Herring John Newton’s Amazing Grace Carl Cannon, RealClearReligion “Libertarian Populism” Should Look to Anthropology James Poulos, Forbes Of Mormonish and . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.24.13

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The Mainline Reconsidered Jennifer Schuesser, New York Times America Remains Religious William McKenzie, Weekly Standard The Glory of the Commons Timothy Noah, Washington Monthly Tolkein v. Orwell on Surveillance David Rosen and Aaron Santesso, Slate The Golden Days of Farrar, Straus & Giroux . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.23.13

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Modernity-Criticism and the Question of Violence Brad Littlejohn, Political Theology The Near-Irrefutability of Art James Chastek, Just Thomism No One Exempted from the Call to Conversion Austen Ivereigh, ABC Religion & Ethics Mary Ann Glendon and the Structure of Religious Freedom Richard W. . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.22.13

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God’s Child: The Odd Thomas Series Hunter Baker, Touchstone How to Survive a Fairytale Alexandra Petri, Verily An Interview with Russell Moore Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post Why We Need Jacques Ellul Bryan Kibbe, Comment From Mad Marxist to Compassionate Conservative Emily Belz, Gospel . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.19.13

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Is New York America’s Holiest City? Melissa Steffan, Gleanings Paper Keys and George Tyrrell Anthony Esolen, Catholic Thing Missing Billy Graham’s Role with Eisenhower Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Young Evangelicals Are Getting High RVD, Christian Pundit Meeting the Hasids Corinna . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.18.13

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Hart Stopping Edward Feser An Ambivalent Tisha B’Av Shmuel Rosner, Latitude Our Essential Disfigurement and the Reparation of Fiction Joshua Hren and Joseph O’Brien, Dappled Things The End of Racial Demagoguery John McWhorter, New Republic Pope in a Minefield Tim Kelleher, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.17.13

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Unmaker’s Mark: “What Happened to Sophie Wilder” Eve Tushnet, American Conservative Medieval Modern Nancy Thebaut, Marginalia Ireland’s Further Steps to Abortion John Waters, Il Sussidiario Two Fundamentalisms Clash Peter Berger, American Interest Millennials are Faithful, But . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.16.13

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That Time C. S. Lewis Got ‘Total Depravity’ Wrong (Like Everybody Else) Derek Rishmawy, Reformedish Derrida’s Life as an Algerian Jew Scott Krane, Tablet Intuition Pumps and Other (Sometimes Extraneous) Tools for Thinking Leah Libresco, Patheos What Can be Learned from a Dying Baby? . . . . Continue Reading »