Blog Roundup: The Answer is Always Aliens

It’s Thursday! Here’s what we have for you to read today:

Over at Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott wants to clean house and Pete Spiliakos wants to qualify certain praises of Mike Lee.

Peter Leithart on the body and the soul: the ear , the bones , and hunger (more here ).

Dr. Boli reads your mail .

Here at First Thoughts , Greg Forster disdains Steven Pinker, Matthew Block looks at Lutheran–Catholic dialogue , and Dale M. Coulter looks at the (perhaps more surprising) Pentecostal–Orthodox dialogue .

And On the Square today, Russell E. Saltzman thinks we can learn from ancient astronauts (and Trekkies).

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