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Bloody Monday and Other Atrocities
Will Herberg (Protestant Catholic Jew) summarizes the American response to the growth of the Irish Catholic population…
What Rational Choice Theory Misses
At the end of his story of Texas Christianity (Rough Country), Robert Wuthnow assesses the strengths and…
First Links—7.27.15
The Dominican Option and the Common GoodC. C. Pecknold, Ethika Politika The Flesh Made Word: Tattoos, Transgression,…
No Temple
A city descends from heaven (Revelation 21:9ff). It’s laid out as a cube, like the Most Holy…
Student Essay Contest Winner: First Place
Congratulations to Jimmy Myers for winning first place in our first annual Student Essay Contest. Below is…
Student Essay Contest Winner: Second Place
Congratulations to Ben Woodfinden for winning second place in our first annual Student Essay Contest. Below is…
Don’t Pray?
Another heartbreaking mass shooting happened late Thursday evening, in Lafayette, Louisiana. As of now it appears two…
Dr. Krauthammer’s Passionate Muddle
Recent revelations that Planned Parenthood is trafficking in human organs—obtained from unborn children killed in the organization’s…
The Future of Evangelicalism
Patheos has just published a symposium on the future of evangelicalism in the next five years. I’m…
First Links—7.23.15
The Different Social Visions of Liberals and ConservativesYuval Levin, Daily Signal Chicago’s Amusement Tax Samuel A. Rosado,…
Divine Craftsman
In Making Good, Trevor Hart summarizes an earlier vision of artistry as craftsmanship: “a human activity of skilled…
Satan Bound and Loosed
The sequence of events in Revelation 20 has some puzzles. Jesus has defeated the beast and the…
Headless Kings
After the dragon is bound in the abyss, John next sees thrones (Revelation 20:4). His description of…
Bourdieu’s Language Games
Jeannine Verdes-Leroux doesn’t like Pierre Bourdieu, not one bit. In her Deconstructing Pierre Bourdieu, she calls him…
The Coming of the Age of Gibberish
Every now and then I read something which seems to capture the spirit of the age. A…