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After Babel
Scientists are human. They need to communicate with each other. For centuries, science has been an international,…
First Links—3.25.15
Can Faith Survive in the First World? David G. Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing Truly Higher Education…
Eschatological Lamb
The final sequence of Revelation begins with the fourth “in Spirit” vision of John (21:9-10). From that…
Angelic Bodies
Paul Griffiths (Decreation) ably defends a minority position in the history of theology, namely, that angels are…
Apocalypse and Eschatology
Apocalypse is also supposed to describe a particular form of eschatology, particularly beliefs about the end of…
Randy Boyagoda on the Thought and Character of Father Neuhaus: A Podcast
Randy Boyagoda’s biography of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square came out…
The Rhetoric of Anti-Discrimination
Last week, the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing entitled “Examining Workplace Discrimination Against…
First Links—3.24.15
What the Hell is the Purpose of Hell? Candida Moss, The Daily Beast Culture’s Champion Gertrude Himmelfarb,…
Atonement from Heaven
When the seventh trumpet blows, heaven opens and the ark of the covenant appears (Revelation 11:19). We’re…
Suspended—By What?
Following a long tradition, Paul Griffiths says that creatures who come from nothing are constantly inclined to…
Open ending
As Andrei Zorin argues in a TLS piece this week, Tolstoy intended to defy novelistic convention in writing…
George Herbert in Lent
The Anglican pastor and poet George Herbert died of tuberculosis on March 1, 1633, just one month…
First Links—3.20.15
Faith and Suicide Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing Ancients on Oldies Richard Ingrams, The Spectator In Defense…
Apocalypse in Asia
One of the difficulties involved in dating Revelation to the 60s and linking it with the fall…
Sacrificial Totem
In an article published in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Tuomas Tepora “analyzed flag speeches given in Helsinki and…
