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First Links — 5.15.13

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Getting Right with Niebuhr James Nuechterlein, The New Criterion School Your Hearts Dwight Longenecker, Intercollegiate Review A Survey of Clergy Views on Evolution Editors, BioLogos The Lethality of Loneliness Judith Shulevitz, New Republic On Silver Linings Playbook Makoto Fujimura . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.14.13

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The One Thomas More: Liberated by Conscience Louis W. Karlin, Library of Law and Liberty Against the McCarthy-Witch Hunt Analogy Philip Jenkins, RealClearReligion The Polish Model Gideon Rose & Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs Learning to Love Heaven Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.13.13

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Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown Michael Deacon, Telegraph God’s Potbellied Heroes Br. Gabriel Torretta, O.P., Dominicana Is the “Purity Culture” Sexist? Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic The Non-Triumph of Capitalism Samuel Gregg, Public Discourse Letter to the Inhabitants of . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.10.13

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From the Wonder of Earnest, Ethereal Personalism Owen White, The Ochlophobist The Alphabet of Nature and Angels Stefany Anne Golberg, The Smart Set Mark Sanford’s God Ross Douthat, Evaluations The Guerrilla Skirmishes of the Sexual Revolution Troy Patterson, Slate “Son of God” . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.9.13

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How Lewis Prepared Me for Edwards (audio) John Piper, Desiring God Verdi’s Shakespeare Brett Foster, Books & Culture The Real Story of Church Growth and Decline Christopher Brittain, ABC Religion & Ethics Why is Communist Iconography Still Cool? Dalibor Rohac, Umlaut 800,00o Converts . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.8.13

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Do All Twentysomething Evangelicals Hate the Suburbs? Keith Miller, Mere Orthodoxy I Still Love Kierkegaard Julian Baggini, Aeon The Argument from Divine Hiddenness Victor Reppert, Dangerous Idea A Caution re: Reading Bergoglio As Proto-Francis Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law Door-to-Door . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.7.13

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The NRA of the Left Kirsten Powers, Daily Beast René Girard: Who Is This Guy, Anyway? Caleb Nelson, Juicy Ecumenism Has Debating the Enlightenment Become Stale? Ollie Cussen, Prospect Seventeenth Century Russians in Twenty-First Century Alaska Wendi Jonassen and Ryan Loughlin, Atlantic For . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.6.13

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The Consecration Robert Fay, Booth The Un-humanitarian Charity of Martin de Porres Anthony Esolen, Touchstone The Joyful Sorrow of Pascha Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos, Mystagogy God Doesn’t Guarantee a Broadway Smash Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Wall Street Journal The Sex Lives of Unmarried . . . . Continue Reading »

Their Martyr’d Blood

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Readers who’ve finished Ephraim Radner’s unambiguous review  of Candida Moss’  The Myth of Persecution (May 2013) may be interested to know that the exchange continues in Notre Dame’s Irish Rover , the school’s alternative Catholic paper. Moss focuses on . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.3.13

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Beauty That Makes You Want to Believe Br. Henry Stephan, O.P., Dominicana Selected Translations Micah Mattix, Books & Culture Move to the City Alan Jacobs, American Conservative The Decline of the Rabbi-Intellectual Zach Mann, Jewish Ideas Daily Hope, North Korea, and Choco Pies Richard Lloyd . . . . Continue Reading »