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Shakespeare Through Anecdotes
Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History by Paul Menzer bloomsbury, 253 pages, $29.95 D id you hear…
Finding Fixed Points in Revelation
Revelation is a confusing book for many readers, apparently endlessly, perhaps even drearily repetitive. The pyrotechnics and…
Hope of the Hopeless
We do what we do because we hope to accomplish something by our actions. All our actions…
Theology, Civic or Natural
Modern theology has often been obsessively concerned to justify itself to cultured despisers, and this self-justification has…
Formation of Christian Theology
One of the best and most comprehensive of the new works on the development of Nicene theology…
First Links — 2.10.16
Whatever it Takes to Make Lent Hardcore Melinda Selmys, Patheos Cover Story: The Headscarf, Modern Turkey, and…
Pope Francis and the Two Cities
For a class on Catholic Social Teaching this past fall, I assigned my college students Robert Hugh…
Speedos or Shorts? Bikinis or Bathing Suits?
Two things in the last week have brought to my attention that those who wish to maintain…
Cinematic Density
Analyses of two scenes from The Thin Red Line in Steven Rybin’s Terrence Malick and the Thought…
Why Observe Lent?
To observe Lent rightly, we have to be persuaded that we already stand in God’s favor. Ash…
Seven Angels
Revelation 14 is filled with “another angel” characters. It’s odd, because “another angel” appears before there’s an…
Communicative Piety
At the center of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches about three duties of Jewish piety…
Nevin Lectures, 2016
This Friday and Saturday, the Theopolis Institute will host the third annual Nevin Lecture series. The Nevin…
Tabernacle of Witness
After the harvest of Revelation 14, John sees another great sign in heaven, angels with bowls full…
Humean Cinema
Mark Cousins once clipped a weed from the grave of David Hume, taped it to a piece…
