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Ironies of Participation
Hal Foster’s Bad New Days is an assessment of the past twenty-five years of European and American art.…
Quotidian Wonders
Psalm 136 is a dialogic Psalm in which the second line of each verse is the same:…
Sabbath Threshing
Solomon built the temple on the threshing floor that David bought from Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel…
On Divine and Bestial Eternity
Early in Revelation, the Father is described as the one who “is and who was and who…
First Links — 10.22.15
On the Road with Dante Karen Swallow Prior, Gospel Coalition When Churches Get Burnt by the Offering:…
Life and Culture Series
These are remarks delivered to introduce conductor John Mason Hodges as the first Birmingham Life and Culture…
Two Tables
Jesus’ action in the temple was a symbolic enactment of the coming destruction of the temple. The…
Double Time in Othello
AC Bradley (Shakespearean Tragedy) points out that Othello has an unusual structure for a Shakespeare tragedy. The…
The Quadrigal Form of Christian Thought
The quadriga – the fourfold sense, consisting of literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical – isn’t only a…
Finding the Body of Christ in All These Other Bodies
Justin, known as “the martyr” for obvious reasons, undertook a defense of Christianity and published his Apology…
Five Ways the Church Can Help Married and Engaged Couples
Sitting at a high-top table in Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, just a few blocks away from…
First Links — 10.21.15
The Strength of the Hills is Not Ours—Our Modern Identity Crisis Jake Meador, Mere Orthodoxy In Defense…
Love, Law, and Wrath
Robert Jenson grasps the attractions of antinomianism: “perhaps only on the edge of antinomianism does the true…
Listening
Theories of language, Rosenstock-Huessy comments, focus almost exclusive attention on the speaker or writer, and almost none…
Empty Vestments
John’s description of the harlot city (Revelation 17:4-5) that he sees in the wilderness is written in…
