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Seeking Justice in the Wake of Tragedy
A horrible tragedy occurred earlier this week, when a young white male walked into Emanuel A.M.E. church…
What We’ve Been Reading—6.19.15
Julia Yost I picked up Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone (2012) because I am a sucker for novels…
A Liberal Lullaby
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by jimmy carter simon & schuster, 224 pages,…
First Links—6.19.15
Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Progress. Is the World Ready? Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post The Real…
The “N” in NGO
Nongovernmental organizations have been on my radar since I heard a pro-family activist from Ireland describe the…
More on the “N” in NGO
According to the Agenda Europe web site, the gay rights network ILGA Europe receives most of its funding…
From Cold War to War on Terror
When the Cold War ended with the Berlin Wall being dismantled and the Soviet Union breaking up,…
Proverbial Abomination
In Torah, “abomination” (to’evah) fits into the lexicon of holiness, purity, defilement. It often describes an act…
Ecclesiology of Union, Ecclesiology of Mission
“Modern civilization, aghast at the results of a conflict between societies which had acknowledged no higher ideal…
Susan B. Anthony for the New $10 Bill
The Federal Reserve recently announced that the $10 dollar bill is getting a redesign: the founder of…
First Links—6.18.15
Ran 7,000 Miles. Putin Still Got Them Michael Weiss, Daily Beast Witless Ape Rides Escalator Kevin D. Williamson, National…
Notes Toward a Theology of Works
Discussions of the place of good works (erga) in the Christian life often focus on Pauline sources.…
Enthronement
The verb “sit” (kathemai) is used thirty-three times in Revelation, often explicitly with the connotation of enthronement.…
Eating Doritos
Tamar Adler reviews Mark Schatzker’s The Dorito Effect in a recent edition of NYTBR. It’s another book about…
Evangelicals and Catholics
Before Roe, before the culture wars, before the 60s, Will Herberg was observing social dynamics that, he…
