Blog Roundup: It’s Now Nine Days Until Christmas

Happy Monday! I hope you had a good weekend.

Over at Postmodern Conservative , we have a discussion of Strauss, Burke, and Lawler —and Pete Spiliakos indulges in some pop culture writing .

What Peter Leithart is reading about: baptism , anti-government toys , maps , biblical theology , Randy Schekman , Islamicism , happiness , and Corinthians . He is also reading Evangelii Gaudium (posts one , two , three , four ), reading N. T. Wright, and the Psalms ; and he’s watching the movie Panic .

Dr. Boli discusses coffee bigots and the corruption of the youth , receives your mail , and provides a new installment of the Illustrated Edition.

Here at First Thoughts , David Mills highlights Father O’Connor of the Bronx and writes on conservative anti-semitism , and Philip Cary makes a brief detour in his series on Genesis .

And On the Square today, Timothy George pays tribute to Mary, while R. R. Reno traces the Christmas story back to Abraham .