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Cult of the Host
One chapter of Emmanuel Katongole’s A Future for Africa is a critique of the Ugandan Movement for the…
You Are A Nanoverse
Tim Flannery’s NYRB review of Paul Falkowski’s Life’s Engines and Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink’s A New History of Life sums up…
Secular Sundays in a Common Europe
Last week was a momentous one for the European project. On Monday, the Greek Parliament passed an…
The Amazon Smear
Ryan Anderson’s new book Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom now has 157 comments at…
More Americans Oppose Obergefell v. Hodges than Support It
A new Associated Press-Gfk poll, released on July 18, reveals that the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision…
First Links—7.20.15
The Liberal Theory of Justice Doesn’t Support AbortionJonah Goldberg, National Review Why do we Love Plato?Will Durant,…
Racism and the Modern Self
In his A Future for Africa, Emmanuel Katongole offers this brief analysis of the roots of racism. He…
The Bible Teaches Us To Read It
Those who share in the first resurrection are not under the authority of the second death (Revelation…
End of Music
The fall of Babylon brings an end to the sounds and sights of urban life. In particular…
Bound and Unbound
The verb “bind” (Greek, deo) is used four times in John’s gospel. The uses form a little…
Freemasons in America
That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culturedavid g. hackett, 336 pages, berkeley, $49.95…
What We’ve Been Reading—7.17.15
R. R. Reno I’m nearly finished reading the new novel by Roger Scruton, The Disappeared. Scruton is…
Francis’ Challenge to Millennial Catholics: It’s the Environment and Marriage
At the end of his Apostolic Visit to South America, Pope Francis instructed a crowd of young…
First Links—7.17.15
The Latest: Shooting in Chattanooga Associated Press The Bad, Worse, & Ugly Media Coverage of Planned Parenthood…
Harmony – Social and Musical
In a number of places in his writing on Pentecostalism, David Martin refers to a musical variant…
