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A Golden Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown
In A Charlie Brown Christmas, the round headed lead’s quest to escape a melancholy brought on by…
Letters from Santa
It was the Christmas of 2013, and my 10-year-old twin sons were having a crisis of faith.…
South Park, First Things, and the Need for a ‘Safe’ Place
On Monday, reflecting on the latest lunacy to erupt on a college campus (in this case, racist…
Economy on Steroids
The Economist’s Schumpeter reports on the extreme physical disciplines of top American executives – early rising, strenuous exercise,…
Hamann, Kant, Enlightenment
According to Hamann, the guilt of the dependent is not in “laziness or cowardice,” as Kant seems…
Not Like a Nuptial
In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, there are two wedding scenes. The first is the wedding of…
Muslims, Christians, and the Gods
The controversy over Wheaton College’s Larycia Hawkins, put on administrative leave because she claims that Christians and Muslims…
First Links — 12.22.15
The Little Way of Terry Pratchett Leah Libresco, Aleteia Michael Wyschogrod, Dean of Orthodox Jewish Theologians, Dies…
Disagreement, charity, and Islam
It was about animosity to Muslims, not theology. That’s what Miroslav Volf claimed in a Washington Post…
Reversing the Revolution
Jeremy Neill is currently bullish on the sexual revolution: “If I were a broker and the sexual…
Articulus stantis et cadentis?
John Webster offers a subtle, careful assessment of the claim that justification is the articulus stantis et…
Restoring Zion
According to Micah, Yahweh begins to restore Zion by gathering the lame, outcasts, afflicted, all who has…
Tribal Trump
Kim R. Holmes argues in an essay at Public Discourse that “The Donald is very much a child…
Sociopaths, Fantasy and Real
Adam Kotsko observes (Why We Love Sociopaths) that contemporary TV is awash with sociopathic character, “ruthless individuals…
What We’ve Been Reading—12.18.15
Matthew Schmitz Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language is one of the few books that has changed the…
