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Politicians and the Common Folk
My friend Tom visits Martha’s Vineyard every summer, where his family has owned a cottage for decades.…
First Links—8.24.15
Where Pope Francis Learned Humility Paul Vallely, The Atlantic Eve Tushnet’s Great New Novel on Forgiveness and…
The Church and the Street
In his contribution to Pentecostalism and the Christian Churches, Waldo Cesar calls attention to the spatial connection of…
Foreign Protestantism
Waldo Cesar observes (Pentecostalism and the Future of the Christian Churches, 91-92) that Protestantism has often felt…
Melting Pot Pentecostalism
David Martin (Future of Christianity, 68-69) notes that in the heat of Pentecostal revival, blacks and whites…
Union University, the CCCU, and Distinctly Christian Higher Education
Carl Trueman, our friend and brother at Westminster Theological Seminary, has critiqued Union’s departure from the Council for…
Humanae Vitae
To hear some people talk, one would get the impression that the prohibition against artificial contraception came…
First Links — 8.21.15
‘The Road Not Taken,’ by David Orr Adam Plunkett, New York Times Sunday Book Review The Heritage…
Denomination and Sacrament
One the features of denominational Christianity highlighted by David Martin is a distinctive mode of sacramental theology…
Muzzling the Prophet
“A key function in most religions,” write Michael Emerson and Christian Smith (Divided By Faith) “is to…
Genesis Redux
Leviticus 1-3 form a unit. 1:1 begins with “Yahweh called to Moses and spoke to him,” and…
Who Was Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab?
Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab by michael crawford oneworld, 160 pages, $40.00 ISIS is only the latest (and certainly…
The Problem of Evangelicalism’s Unstated Confessions
Over at his Patheos blog, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight has offered an interesting commentary on the…
First Links — 8.20.15
Should I Give the Dollar? Br. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O. P., Dominicana Redemption for Politicians? Bruce Frohnen,…
Seeing Glory
“This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded that you do, that the glory of Yahweh may…
