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The Myth of the Evangelical Trump Voters
There has been much handwringing in the evangelical world over the seemingly high levels of support for…
The Age of Outrage
There is no question that we in North America are living in an age of outrage. In…
Justice Scalia and Religious Conservatives
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum, Robert Delahunty has an interesting, even provocative retrospective on…
Parallels in Luke-Acts
Rebecca Denova(Things Accomplished Among Us) provides a good summary of the complex pattern of parallelism that structures…
Practical Trinity
A section of Kant’s Conflict of Faculties lays out “Philosophical Principles of Scriptural Exegesis for Settling the…
Is Immigration “Decimating” Us?
David Goldman (Spengler) acknowledges that “illegal immigration is a bad thing, and the social costs of a…
First Links — 3.4.16
What Wouldn’t Jesus Do?Peter Wehner, New York Times Character, Flourishing, and the Good LifeDavid Brooks and Miroslav…
Canadian Culture of Death: An Open Letter
While America’s eyes are glued to the sad spectacle of the 2016 presidential primaries, the situation north…
Moses in Chronicles
Moses isn’t mentioned in Chronicles as much as he is in Exodus-Joshua. Naturally. But that doesn’t mean…
Tristan and Courtly Love
According to WTH Jackson’s Anatomy of Love, Gottfried of Strausburg’s version of the Tristan story marks a…
Gospel as Atonement Theory
In a characteristically pithy essay, Robert Jenson has decried the “two paired errors” of traditional atonement theory.…
The Man From Kempis
As a matter of fact, he was actually the man from Kempen, but the author of the…
Brush with Greatness
Many Beautiful Things lives up to its title. With lush visuals from the English countryside, the deserts…
Hurrah for Baronius!
As someone raised in the scripture-centered precincts of Evangelical Protestantism who later found his way to Rome,…
Death and Resurrection in 1 Chronicles 2
1 Chronicles 2 begins with a list of the sons of Israel, organized not in birth order…