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First Links — 5.11.12

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Population Change is Reversing Secularism Eric Kaufmann, AEI Pope Formally Proclaims Sainthood of Hildegard von Bingen Catholic Culture Washington’s Iconic ‘Jewish Letter’ to Be Displayed Paul Berger, Jewish Daily Forward “Evangelical” Catholicism? Micah Murphy, Truth . . . . Continue Reading »

90 Becomes 8

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In response to Georgetown University’s invitation of Kathleen Sebelius to a commencement weekend ceremony, outgoing professor Patrick Deneen has circulated a letter of protest among the faculty: Calling the invitation to speak on commencement day “one of the greatest honors that a . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.10.12

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How to Succeed* in DC Anna Williams,  Ignitum Today What’s the Matter with North Carolina? Nicholas Frankovich,  The Corner Tolerance and Diversity at the Academy Mollie Hemingway,   Richochet Van Gogh’s Collapse of Authority Hugh Eakin,  Wall Street Journal Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

The Power Brokers’ Biographer

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This past weekend, the Wall Street Journal featured an interview with Robert Caro, who discussed the release of his fourth massive volume on the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Caro, whose biography of tyrannical urban planner Robert Moses ( The Power Broker ) is broadly considered one of the best . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.9.12

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The Nuns and the “God Within” Ross Douthat,  New York Times Is Youth Ministry a Failed Experiment? Alex Murashko,  The Christian Post Cornel West’s Unending Quest Lisa Miller,   New York Magazine “Julia” and the Demands of Charity Emily Stimpson, . . . . Continue Reading »

Esolen’s Lively Virtues

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If you haven’t come across it yet, Anthony Esolen has been writing a series of articles—expositions, really—covering the seven “lively virtues,” counterparts to the more widely-known deadly sins, for Crisis . This morning the third in the series, on meekness , went up. . . . . Continue Reading »

Talking the Creed

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First Things contributor, film director, and new media impresario Tim Kelleher gives an interview to Dr. Adam DeVille of LOGOS in which he discusses the content, formation, and impact of the Nicene Creed: AD: When it comes to the creed, Eastern and Western versions are identical except for one . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.8.12

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European Elections’ Real Winner: The Far Right Peter Popham,  The Independent Secularism, Creativity, and Art Charles Murray,   New Criterion Barack Obama & T. S. Eliot Peter Lawler,  Big Think Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Narrative Calvinism’ Rachel Stone,  . . . . Continue Reading »

Evangelical Anglophilia

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Over at the Gospel Coalition , Joe Carter points to a  piece in Religion & Politics in which Molly Worthen examines a curious phenomenon among American evangelical Christians: Anglophilia. Worthen notes that, in addition to the late John Stott, evangelicals seem to naturally gravitate . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.7.12

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What the Church’s Educational Institutions Should Acknowledge Patrick Brennan, Mirror of Justice “For Many” or “For All”? Sandro Magister, La Stampa Biden “Comfortable” with Same-Sex Marriage Brian Knowlton, The Caucus The Beginning of the End of the Unpaid . . . . Continue Reading »