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When Discrimination Means Death
The social media world has been aflutter over the possibility that a flight attendant discriminated against a…
Soul Freedom
Os Guinness is utterly convincing, and characteristically wise, on many points in his 2014 The Global Public Square.…
Colonialism and Secularization
Andrew Walls (The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History) argues that Europe’s encounter with non-Western peoples was one…
The World the Missionaries Made
“Scholars today (though in practice it is more the custom of the popularizers and media exponents) can…
Gallup Poll Shows Increased Support For Physician Assisted Suicide
Last week, Gallup released the results of a poll on the moral acceptability of various behaviors. Specifically,…
First Links—6.1.15
Meanwhile, in Switerland Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing Death Denial Marc Parry, The Chronicle Review…
What Missionaries Were Missing
Scott Sunquist (Understanding Christian Mission, 127-8) asks why African Christianity so often developed into independent churches rather…
Mao as Church Father
In a brief review of recent Asian Church history (From Every Tribe and Nation), Mark Noll makes…
How the Church Grows
In an essay on “Christianity in the Non-Western World” found in The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History, Andrew…
What We’ve Been Reading—5.29.15
Matthew Schmitz I have been reading A Confederacy of Dunces. The story of its publication—rejection by publishers, reluctant discovery…
Upcoming Events–5.29.15
Sculpture in the Age of the DonatelloNew YorkEnds June 14Twenty-three masterpieces of early Florentine Renaissance sculpture—most never…
From Circumcision to Stigmata
At the end of Galatians (6:11-16), Paul picks up on themes from the first part of the letter.…
Don’t Forget the Poor
In Galatians 2:10, Paul unexpectedly makes a reference to the Jerusalem apostles’ interest in the poor and…
Alpha Spirit, Omega Spirit
Paul rebukes the Galatians for beginning by the Spirit, and then attempting to revert to the flesh…
The Awkward Christian
If a hoarsely chanted version of the “Hot Pockets” jingle means anything to you, that’s probably a…
