Happy Friday! Here’s what we have for you as we head into the weekend:
Maureen Mullarkey sleeps through sermons .
What Peter Leithart is reading about: what Jesus ate, Trojan popes , Levinas , James Bond , Paul Ryan . He’s also still reading N. T. Wright, and Sara Coakley’s God, Sexuality, and the Self (posts one , two , three ).
Dr. Boli wants you to be safe .
Here at First Thoughts , the serpent makes his appearance in the Garden of Eden, Mark Movsesian breaks down the political situation in the Ukraine , and B. D. McClay justifies the existence of pop culture writing with The X-Files .
And On the Square today, Wesley J. Smith draws our attention to a miscarriage of justice, while Gina Dalfonzo praises a new adaptation of Great Expectations .
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