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F. S. Naiden is making a career in classics by unsettling settled academic opinion about ancient religion…
First Links—8.5.15
A New Planned Parenthood Video and More Outrage Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic Dutch Offered ‘Euthanasia on Wheels’…
First Links—8.4.15
Redeeming Word and Body Fr. Paul Scalia, The Catholic Thing The Long GOP Fight to Defund Planned…
Athenian Manufacturing
“The standard of living in Athens in classical times was high – and not just in relation…
Ulaity
Noah Smith notes a gap in the world of Star Trek: The Next Generation: “No one is doing business.”…
All Theology Is Public Theology
“Public theology” typically describes “theology that addresses common concerns in an open forum, where no particular creed…
Triune Atonement
In his Atonement: A Guide for the Perplexed, Adam Johnson calls the doctrine of the Trinity the “foundation”…
Childish or Childlike? That is the real choice.
Last week over at salon.com, Jeffrey Tayler wrote another of those predictable polemics against religion. All the…
Pure Jokes
Ted Cohen recounts that he began his research on Jokes by “dividing them into the pure ones and the…
Justice by Faith
Eugene Boring reviews Herman Waetjen’s Letter to the Romans in the Review of Biblical Literature (July 2015). According…
The Modern System of Art
The introduction to Noel Carroll’s Art in Three Dimensions is as good a summary of the development of…
What We’ve Been Reading—7.31.15
Mark BauerleinI am in the first 50 page of Midcentury, a 1961 novel by John Dos Passos. Dos Passos…
First Links—7.31.15
Who Do Evangelical Insiders Favor in 2016?J. C. Derrick, World The Quiet AlarmAndreas Elpidorou, Aeon Telling LiesEva…
Immigration and Statism
During the gold rush of 1848, Chinese immigrants began to move into the United States in large…
In the City
In John’s final vision (Revelation 21:9-22:5), new Jerusalem descends from heaven as a bride. Her jasper walls…
