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First Links — 10.16.15
Mind the Gap: Neuroscience, Transhumanism, and Human Nature William E. Carroll, Public Discourse
The Happening
Revelation begins (1:1, 19) with the announcement that God showed His bondservants what will soon “happen” or…
Circles from the Sky
When the seventh bowl is poured out on the air, the world collapses. The throne of God…
Belief in the Academy
In a spirited reply to Philip Davies’ Whose Bible Is It Anyway?, Francis Watson takes aim at Davies…
Civil Society, Church, and State
Peter Leithart asks: Can Civil Society Fix Us? More to the point, he wonders whether civil society…
First Links — 10.15.15
Sluttery and Shakespeare B. D. McClay, Hedgehog Review If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy Walter Kirn, Atlantic…
Helping Without Hurting
Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert’s Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence is a handbook to help churches give…
Austen’s Silent Characters
Jane Austen “did things with characerisation, with dialogue, with English sentences, that had never been done before,”…
Infant Faith
According to Kimberly Hope Belcher (Efficacious Engagement, 77), “Augustine seems to have been the first commentator on…
Philosophical Luther
Brian Gregor’s A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross isn’t “a specifically Lutheran anthropology,” but Gregor does think Luther…
The Wonders of Freecycling
Gifting: Turn of the century Styrofoam take-out boxes with vintage food left on them. In good condition,…
First Links — 10.14.15
How Technology Has Changed the Way We Relate to Each Other Jessica Love, American Scholar Will Michael…
Keep It Shakespeare, Stupid
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is launching a three-year project to commission 36 pairs of playwrights and dramaturges…
Unthought Axiomatics
Derrida is old hat these days, but he’s still a thinker worth wrestling with, worthy of better…
Can Civil Society Fix Us?
“Civil society” typically refers to private and voluntary institutions distinct from both the bureaucracies of the nation-state…
