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New Song From Heaven
John sees 144,000 assembles with the Lamb on Zion. He hears music, a fourfold voice from heaven…
Minecraft over Marriage
I don’t often write book reviews, because it’s not often that this sociologist digests a readable academic…
The Role of Religion
Well, the influence of religion on political life has pretty much disappeared from the world in the…
Read the Law
There is an op-ed in the Washington Post this morning by Apple CEO Tim Cook. It bears…
Willing Incompatible Worlds
To find the words that describe with accuracy the media hysterics involved with Indiana’s passing of a…
First Links—3.30.15
The New Modesty in Literary Criticism Jeffrey J. Williams, The Chronicle of Higher Education The Crazy Old…
Packaged Pleasures
Gary Cross and Robert Proctor describe the changes in technology, marketing, consumption, and habits that followed the…
Sealed with the Name
The 144,000 from the 12 tribes are sealed in Revelation 7, but we don’t learn the contents…
Windsor, Marriage, and Religious Freedom
Same-sex marriage is raising some pretty urgent questions about religious liberty and pluralism. Is the religious liberty…
Germanwings and Evil
In the days since audio was extracted from the black box recorder of crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525…
First Links — 3.27.15
Married Monasticism Hunter Sharpless, Ethika Politika It’s Not Vatican II’s Fault Stephen Bullivant, Catholic Herald Better Dead…
Eating Children
John sees great signs in heaven (Revelation 12:1-4). After sweeping the stars from the sky, the dragon…
The Creator’s Kiss
We often believe, Paul Griffiths writes (Decreation, 162-4) that eros is “a drive or appetite internal to…
Modern Marcionites
In the first of his Hulsean lectures, Richard Hays claims (Reading Backwards) that “many ‘mainstream’ Protestant churches…
Every Sunday Is Palm Sunday
When Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, everything changes. As Mark tells it, Jesus has been moving…
