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Would you sacrifice yourself for Iraq?
Why do we talk about patriotism in religious terms? asks Ivan Strenski (in a Library of Social Science…
Singing the Apocalypse
Revelation seems to be the province of fundamentalists, dispensationalists, popapocalyptics. It’s far too cartoonish, stark, violent, demanding…
Slaughterhouse of the World
Yahweh brings a devastating judgment on His own people and on Edom, slaughtering and destroying them. He…
God the Last Thing
God only speaks twice directly to the reader in Revelation, Craig Koester points out (Revelation and the…
Conceit of Humanitarianism
You get the gist of Rajan Menon’s argument from the title of his forthcoming book: The Conceit of…
Mapping Jane Austen
Janine Barchas (Matters of Fact in Jane Austen) says that Austen’s world had a nascent celebrity culture.…
Pope Packer
J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life by leland ryken crossway, 432 pages, $30 I f Evangelical Protestants…
Saudi Oil: It’s Not about North Dakota, It’s about ISIS
While the U.S. remains the 800-pound gorilla in international relations, not everything occurring in the international realm…
Weak Goals at Notre Dame
Following on from my article about the Curriculum Review at the University of Notre Dame, I can report…
Liberalism’s Dilemma
In The Myth of Liberalism, John Safranek observes that recent Supreme Court decisions identify freedom with autonomy: “both…
Abraham in Shakespeare
Ken Jackson’s Shakespeare & Abraham is not, he says, “a traditional study of literary borrowing or influence that…
Materialist Idolatry
Nearly all our terms for immaterial concepts were originally terms for material objects. Words for “spirit” originally…
Yoga at the University
Earlier this month, controversy broke out when a Canadian university canceled a beginners’ yoga class it had…
Thanksgiving as the Basis of Freedom
Thanksgiving in America is a thing to behold. We vaguely recall its Puritan origins, and vaguely associate…
First Links — 11.25.15
Fighting Terrorism with Transcendence Gracey Olmstead, American Conservative While We Were Out Daniel Schwindt, Distributist Review The…