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The Francis Effect?
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Upcoming Events 8.26.16
New York: “Happiness Without Religion? A Philosophical Debate” Saturday, September 10, 3 – 5 pm The NYU…
Daily Prayers, Daily Vows
My sister entered a monastery slowly, over the course of some years, and she says this is…
Tales of the Christ
Peter Suderman doesn’t much like the Ben Hur remake, which he describes as purposeless, a lesser film…
Girls Will Be Boys
Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys examines cross-dressing women and lesbians in early 20th-century American film. According…
Founding ISIS
David Goldman thinks Trump has a point when he accuses Bush, Clinton, and Obama of creating ISIS.…
Baseball Time
Joseph Bottum ponders why inductions into the Baseball Hall of Fame are so full of sepia-hued nostalgia.…
The Prince to the Rescue
Chris Deliso reports in the current issue of The National Interest on the “global network of aristocrats,…
Patterns in the Psalter
On his web site, CJ Labuschagne analyzes the five books of the Psalter and each of the…
America Against Itself
When Saddam Hussein pushed into Iran in September of 1980, the US was in an ambiguous position.…
Symbolic Cosmos
Jean Hani (The Symbolism of the Christian Temple, 10) illustrates her concept of “vertical” cosmic symbolism with…
Barth, Rosenstock, Rosenzweig
Mark Lindsay (Barth, Israel, and Jesus, 27-28) notes that Barth found little intellectual companionship during his early…
Lectio Divina and the Facebook Newsfeed
Puppies bounding through a field, a jubilant wedding, a new round of beheadings in the Middle East,…
Outbursts
The story of David’s installation of the ark in Jerusalem can be told as a series of…
The Private Public
In a 2008 essay in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin (since reprinted elsewhere), Oliver O’Donovan observes that understanding…
