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Talking Like Grownups
Jonathan Franzen begins his NYTBR review of Sherry Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversation by describing Turkle’s unique place among commentators on…
Sex and Peace
Sex is supposed to keep everyone so busy that they don’t have time to fight. Make love…
From the Mouth
Four times Revelation refers to the sword that comes from the mouth of Jesus, twice at the…
First Links — 10.8.15
Everyday Artificial Stupidity Geoffrey Pullum, Chronicle of Higher Education When Friendships Fail Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship The…
New Old Christendom
According to John Allen Jr., writing in Crux, the next Christendom in Africa bears some resemblance to the…
Assimilated To What?
Leave aside the question of illegal immigrants for a moment. Legal immigration is itself a political and…
Battle of Har-Magedon
Kings gather at a place called “Har-Magedon” for the war of the great day of God pantokrator…
Scientists Explain the Origins of Religion
I’d say, after reading this essay, we can just sleep in next Sunday. We now have a scientific…
Upcoming Events—10.7.15
New York: The Art of the Beautiful Lecture Series:“Art, the Beautiful, and the True Good in Dante’s…
First Links — 10.7.15
The Opening of the Synod Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. CAP., CatholicPhilly Benedict Option FAQ Rod Dreher, American Conservative…
Learning from Catholicism
“The differences between these two major types of Christianity, at the present time, involve contradictions,” wrote Avery…
Triune Relations
Wesley Hill argues in Paul and the Trinity that recent discussions of Pauline christology are locked into a…
Frogs
The trinity of dragon, beast, and false prophet “breath” out three demon spirits that look like frogs…
Religion and Presidential Voting Patterns
My friend Henry Olsen knows election data just about as well as anyone in the public eye.…
The Crisis in International Religious Freedom
In September of this year, Baylor University sponsored two lectures on the topic of religious persecution. The…