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Seven Heads
In a 2007 Bibliotheca Sacra article, Mark Hitchcock examines various theories about the identity of the seven…
Niebuhr and Mission to the Jews
John Cuddihy (No Offense, 31-43) gives an illuminating and damning analysis of Reinhold Niebuhr’s transformation from the…
Unmixed America
Stephen Warner argues that in analyzing American religion and culture, we need to go beyond the contrast…
Liberty Adrift
The United States has a stain upon it. The Three-Fifths Compromise—a moral failure which defined a whole…
Failed Poets
Roberto Bolaño neatly captures the spirit of The Savage Detectives in an establishing scene early in the…
First Links—7.28.15
Looking Away From Abortion Ross Douthat, New York Times Richard Nixon’s Culture War Mark Judge, Real Clear…
Rational Disgust
Ross Douthat comments on why so many of his fellow journalists are turning away from the outrageous organ trade…
Symbolic Boundaries and Social Capital
Robert Wuthnow (Rough Country) observes that “symbolic boundaries having to do with religion do in fact include…
Civility and Secularization
In his classic 1978 study of civil religion, No Offense, the late John Cuddihy affirms Talcott Parsons’s view…
The Calvary Option?
Rod Dreher has been creating quite a helpful and productive stir with his arguments in favor of…
Francis, Obama, and Ideological Colonization
Let us be on guard against colonization by new ideologies. There are forms of ideological colonization which…
The New York Times on Mideast Christians
Eliza Griswold’s major piece on Mideast Christians in the New York Times Magazine this past weekend is…
What Can an Old Quranic Parchment Really Show?
Birmingham University has announced that it possesses what could be the world’s oldest fragments of the Muslim…
Grace and Truth on Campus
As a conservative Christian at a small liberal arts school, I’m a part of a small minority…
Structure in Revelation 21:1-5
Revelation 21:1 concludes the last section of chapter 20, but also inaugurates a new section of the…
