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Liturgy and Charity
Susan Holman (The Hungry Are Dying) draws on recent scholarship to argue that “food doles, communal religious…
First Links — 4.29.16
Give Us This Day Our Daily HedgehogLeah Libresco, Aleteia The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu’s Treasures from Al-QuaedaJoshua…
Archetypes of Exorcism
The Case Against Satanby ray russell foreword by laird barronpenguin classics, 160 pages, $15 Ray Russell enjoys…
The Long Form of Mark vs. the Short Form of Ascensiontide
Ascension Day 2016 is one week away, on Thursday, 5 May. That, in case you don’t know,…
Preaching to Spirits
Karen Jobes (1 Peter) understates the point when she says that 1 Peter 3 is “more obscure…
Rabbinic Welfare
Susan Holman devotes a few pages of her The Hungry Are Dying, a study of “beggars and…
On Not Being Seventy
For the longest moment driving home two days ago, I was convinced that my next birthday, then…
Soul of France
We Have Been Friends Together & Adventures in Grace by raïssa maritain translated by julie kernan edited…
See No Evil
If there’s any good reason to distrust the self-awareness of contemporary progressives, it’s the cultural epidemic of…
Biblical Terms for “Ritual”
English Bibles rarely employ the words “ceremony,” “rite,” or “ritual” to translate biblical terms. The NASB, for…
Weber’s Liberal Protestantism
Anthony Carroll summarizes his Protestant Modernity in a 2009 article in the Archives of European Sociology. Recognizing…
Confronting the Public Health Crisis of Pornography
Something is afoot. “Porn and the Threat to Virility” recently hit the stands not in the form…
Justice and Faith in Acts
Paul’s sermons in Acts 13 and 17 both employ language connected with the theme of justification that…
Protestant Individualism?
In her book on Common Prayer, Ramie Targoff claims that “What emerges in the aftermath of the…
No Longer
The ruined city Babylon is a city where things that used to happen don’t happen anymore. John’s…
