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Believe Your Baptism
Baptism is God’s promise to and claim on the baptized. It demands response, a response of faith.…
Franklin Graham and the Problem of Reaction
At the Theopolis site, A.K. Shauku examines Franklin Graham’s response to recent racial conflicts in the US. Shauku…
Family–Supported Suicide and the Duty to Die
In 1991, my friend Frances invited me to a “going away party.” She wasn’t moving or going…
Hesburgh and Rice
Notre Dame’s former president Theodore Hesburgh and law professor Emeritus Charles Rice, who died within days of…
First Links—3.19.15
Scientific-Sounding Excuses for Promiscuity David Mills, Aleteia The Case for Old Ideas Ross Douthat, The New York…
Apocalyptic Intertextuality
A fair bit of scholarship has been devoted recently to exploring the uses of Scripture in Revelation.…
Entrainment
“Entrainment,” writes Joshua Leeds, “concerns changing the rate of brain waves, breaths, or heard-beats from one speed…
Dionysian Jesus
The Supper is bread, food for life. The Supper is also wine, a sign of rest and…
A Realistic Immigration Policy
What are our priorities for immigration? On this issue, the American right is divided between elites and…
On Not Accepting the Tyranny of the Possible
Although I lived my first thirty-five years during the Cold War, I had only one unforgettable opportunity…
First Links—3.18.15
Dante: A Very Short Introduction Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian Is It Time for the Jews to Leave…
Holes in the Head
Our head is the governing part of our body. We think in our brains, and our brains…
Quadrigizing Revelation
Evangelicals generally classify interpretations of Revelation as futurist, historicist, idealist, or preterist. For futurists, the book of…
The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage
In the Gospel of St. Mark, the Lord Jesus teaches that “from the beginning of creation ‘God…
First Links—3.17.15
The Real War on Christianity Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian & Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy A Rather Antinomian Christianity: John…
