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Heaven’s Song
God is a God of speech. Robert Jenson has said we worship a talkative God, The first…
Anglicans and Religious Liberty
Over at The Spectator, James Mumford offers a hard-hitting analysis of the response to the recent Anglican summit.…
The Wizard’s Boy
Another great thing about being an altar boy was getting to the church early, before everyone except…
Apocalyptic Spenser
In her contribution to The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature, Florence Sandler suggests that “Spenser presents…
Last Year’s Horror Cornucopia: Suffering in Style
Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson’s 2015 slasher parody about mourning. It’s charming, touching,…
Adam Smith on Society’s Exploitation of the Rich
Donald Trump ascribing responsibility for his first two failed marriages to working “like, twenty-two hours a day”…
“Of course religion is first and foremost a duty”
The Catholic Martin Mosebach and the Muslim Navid Kermani are fascinated by one another’s faith. A conversation…
Newman, Scruton, and the Politics of Mumbo Jumbo
I spent Christmas reading Roger Scruton’s critique of leading thinkers of the New Left and Roderick Strange’s…
Literal and Figurative
Biblical scholars commonly criticize other biblical scholars for being inconsistent in their handling of literal and figurative…
Apocalypse Against Empire
Catherine Keller argues (God and Power) that apocalyptic vision turned “a local, territorializing Israelite faith” into a…
Panic in Jerusalem
“For three transgressions of Damascus and for four. . . . for three transgressions of Gaza and…
A Ukrainian Christmas-at-the-crossroads
When Ukraine celebrated Christmas two weeks ago, there were ample reasons for pessimism about that long-suffering country’s…
Apocalyptic Trinity
Thomas Altizer of “death of God” fame is back, advocating for what he calls the Apocalyptic Trinity. This…
Four Horsemen
Ranko Stefanovic (Revelation of Jesus Christ, 229-30) notes that interpreting the first of the horsemen of the…
The Prince and his Princes
The restoration of Judah involves a restoration of the Davidic kingship, the coronation and elevation of a…
