Blog Roundup: I Want to Believe

Happy Thursday! Here’s what we have for you today.

Peter Leithart is reading about: Cornelius Van Til , the humanity of Christ, Ukraine , and bodies .

Dr. Boli gets into the posters-for-your-dentist’s-office game .

Here at First Thoughts , Phillip Cary writes about what God did not find good, and Dale M. Coulter provides a Pentecostal perspective on Francis.

On the Square today, Russell E. Saltzman wonders where the aliens are , while Grégor Puppinck thinks Christians should not play the discrimination game.

And, finally, Dana Gioia’s article in our December issue, “The Catholic Writer Today,” is now out from behind the paywall. So go on! Send it to all your friends!

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