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David’s Women
April Westbrook’s “And He Will Take Your Daughters” takes its title from 1 Samuel 8, the prophet Samuel’s…
Harmony – Social and Musical
In a number of places in his writing on Pentecostalism, David Martin refers to a musical variant…
Desolate City
Revelation 18 ends with a terrible description of post-apocalyptic Babylon, a city fallen. The description focuses on…
“Must be the Recession”
One thing that I’ve heard from several people when I mention the surge in Dominican vocations (and the…
A Gallery of American Dreams
Though only the first act of Denis Johnson’s Angels takes place in transit, the book has the feel…
First Links—7.16.15
The Dawn of the Iranian Empire Max Boot, Commentary Rebuilding a Marriage Culture: A Fourfold Mission for…
O’Connor as Catholic Writer
William Giraldi really doesn’t like being mistaken for a Catholic novelist. And he doesn’t much like Catholic novels…
Weak Churches
In their 1994 study of mainline decline, Vanishing Boundaries, Dean Hoge and associates offered evidence in support…
Flesh and glory
To defend the resurrection, Paul indulges in a piece of cosmology (1 Corinthians 15:35-49), which circulates around…
Shortcircuiting Consensus
Unlike ordinary statutes, for which change requires only a simple majority of those attending a legislative session,…
Thank You, Mark Oppenheimer
Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now…
A Cape of Good Hope
In his recent piece, SOS, my colleague Dominic Bouck, O.P., argued that the Church is much like a…
Dear New York Times: A Hijab is not a Burka
Hijab. Al-Amira. Shayla. Khimar. Chador. Nikab. Burka. In the words of the Eaglet from Alice & Wonderland,…
First Links—07.15.15
How Often do Ethics Professors Call Their Mothers?Eric Schwitzgebel, Aeon The Really Big OneKathryn Schulz, New Yorker Will…
Clothed in righteousness
Clothing metaphors have long been associated in Protestantism with imputed righteousness: “Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness /…
