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Dostoevsky’s Theology
Pulling together the important “content” of Rowan Williams’s profound, masterful 2008 study of Dostoevsky inevitably distorts, since much of…
What We Get From Worship
It is often said that we come to worship to give and not to receive. That is…
Morgan Stanley Announces New “Catholic” Investment Program
As a non-Catholic, I’m always a little reluctant to wade into these issues, but this time I…
The Perfect Protest for This Present Age
Women students in Texas are planning to take their sex toys to class to protest a law…
First Links — 10.13.15
Pond Scum: Henry David Thoreau’s Moral Myopia Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker Bradbury the Realist Thomas F. Bertonneau,…
Hope Springs Eternal
In the introduction to What Hath God Wrought, his contribution to the Oxford History of the United States,…
Ritual and Spontaneity
For the first 1500 years of its existence, Christianity was a liturgical faith. That began to change…
Isianic Passover
The consensus of modern critical scholarship is that the book assigned to Isaiah was in fact composed…
Baptismal Imagery in James
James hooks the different sections of his epistle together by using the same or a similar word…
First Links — 10.12.15
Our Low Tolerance for Change Yuval Levin, National Review Uncovering the Secret History of Myers-Briggs Merve Emre,…
Locusts and Honey
John the Baptist is presented in the gospels as the fulfillment of the Old Testament promise that…
Showing the Lord’s Death
How does the Lord’s Supper proclaim the death of Jesus until He comes? (1 Corinthians 11:26). Historically,…
Eucharistic Modalism
One of the earliest Trinitarian heresies is called “modalism.” It taught that the “persons” of the Trinity…
Irritability and Intellect
We like to pretend our notions are the product of careful study and rational analysis. We like…
First Links — 10.9.15
Roger Scruton: ‘My tribal religion’ Michael Duggan, Catholic Herald Ghosts in a Secular Age Ross Douthat, New…
