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Clothing metaphors have long been associated in Protestantism with imputed righteousness: “Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness /…

When Babylon the great city falls, all the inhabitants are driven out. No human sights or sounds…

The confusion about marriage in contemporary America is profound. It’s a confusion about the very roots of…

We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna…

El Chapo Escapes Again Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker Is it Time for a National Divorce Law…

When Paul lived among the Thessalonians, he wasn’t a layabout and didn’t ask them for any necessities.…

Stan Van Hooft’s Cosmopolitanism pays closer attention to religion themes than many works on this theme. He clearly…

It took a parody. I devoted a section of a chapter in Deep Exegesis to Peter Enns’s…

Paul-Francois Tremlett (Levi-Strauss on Religion) provides this neat precis of the central claim of Levi-Straussian structuralism:  “new…

Four times Babylon is called “Babylon the great” (Babulon he megale) in Revelation, and the uses of…

Last Thursday the Philadelphia Inquirer published an op-ed on gay marriage. On the whole, it was blandly…

Information and History Alan Jacobs, New Atlantis Culture-War Vertigo? Free-Solo Fear? Mind the Rock Dominic Verner, O.P., Dominicana…

The latest edition of First Things magazine, soon to be available online, contains an important piece by…

In his 1908 treatise on Passing Protestantism and Coming Catholicism, Newman Smyth posed what he considered the decisive…

A strong angel takes up a millstone and tosses it into the sea. Just so, he says,…