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Social Justice According to Michael Novak
First Things and Encounter Books are excited to be hosting an upcoming event with Michael Novak and…
Poetry and Faith
In an interview with Image magazine, Rowan Williams explains the at of trust that is inherent in…
Trumpopulism
Yuval Levin has listened carefully to the GOP hopefuls, entire speeches at a time. He discerns an…
Love Song
In Isaiah 4, the Lord describes the glory over Israel as a “bridal chamber.” Yahweh’s glory is…
The Jordanian Woman
Please join us for “The Jordanian Woman,” an art opening with artist Jörg Madlener. The event will…
Getting Isaiah 53 Right
Isaiah 53 has often been read as a text dealing mainly with “atonement theory.” That is, it…
Architecture of Alienation
A 1982 debate between architects Christopher Alexander and Peter Einsenman focused on contrasting cosmologies expressed by traditional…
How to Make Liberal Democracy Safe for Religion
Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville j. judd owencambridge, 182 pages, $95.00 J.…
Forty-Three Years After Roe, Hope is Alive
I just noticed that the little reflection I wrote on the anniversary of the tragedy of Roe v.…
“A republic . . . if you can keep it”
Today, January 22, 2016, the 43rd anniversary of the monstrous decision of the Supreme Court to deprive…
First Links — 1.22.16
Conservatives Against Trump NR Symposium, National Review Defenders of the Unborn Kristin Dombak, New York Times A…
Battle or Triumph?
Following hints from David Aune, Alastair Campbell argues (in an Evangelical Quarterly article) that Revelation 19:11-21 does…
Purifying Temple
William Dumbrell’s The End of the Beginning examines the Old Testament backgrounds to the final visions of…
A New Sky
In the ancient world, Aries was, Bruce Malina observes, “the first of all constellations, the first created…
Omnibus of Fallacies
Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by jerry a. coyne viking, 336 pages, $28.95…
