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First Links — 9.10.15
How J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Revived Modern Myth-Making James Parker, Atlantic Can Shakespeare Heal?…
Fear
Marilynne Robinson has some sobering things to say about Christianity, America, and fear. She starts from the premise, by…
Differentiation and De-Differentiation
In their editorial introduction to Globalizing the Sacred, Manual Vasquez and Marie Marquardt explain the limitations of secularization…
King Moses
Moses is typically depicted in modern scholarship as a prophet. There is reason for that, but in…
Where 1968 Started
When Franco Basaglia took over the Gorizia asylum in 1961, it reminded him of his time in…
Upcoming Events — 9.9.15
The Mind of Christ: Christology and Contemporary Exegesis Washington D.C. October 2-3 A series of lectures at…
First Links — 9.9.15
Film Review: ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’ Alissa Simon, Variety While Europe Braces for Massive Muslim Influx, Swedish…
Film in a Fallen Eden
In a 2003 essay on Terrence Malick’s film, Days of Heaven, Hubert Cohen traces the Edenic motifs…
On the Deaths of Sons
In a recent Theopolis lecture, James Jordan pointed to the symmetry between the beginning and end of…
Cut It Out
In a recent New Yorker piece on “Omission,” John McPhee puts in a word for concise writing.…
Remembering “The Few”
Seventy-five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from…
Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Lawyers?
I’ll leave it to others more knowledgeable than I to assess the changes Pope Francis announced this…
Why Ms. Madison Had to Create Female Customers
News that Ashley Madison had to create over 70,000 fake female profiles to meet demand calls an…
First Links—9.8.15
Catholics Who Disagree with the Vatican think the Church Will Change Leah Libresco, FiveThirtyEight ‘Hypocrite,’ the All-Purpose Political…
Cinematic Song
Josh Timmermann suggests that Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder takes its cues not from love stories but from love songs…
