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First Links — 2.26.15
The Bells of Ordinary Time Tessa Carman, Fare Forward The Loss of Faith Made Music Mute Oliver…
The Newest Doctor of the Church
This week, Pope Francis did something unprecedented. (One could perhaps write that sentence every week.) He named,…
Sectarian Rome
It was a well-nigh universal trope of Reformation rhetoric that the Reformers were the catholics who had…
Communitarian Puritan
William Perkins is known mainly among Reformed Christians with an affinity for the Puritans. It’s refreshing to…
Stand with Barronelle Stutzman
In the ongoing cultural disputes that pit a person’s sexual “identity” against a person’s religious liberty, it’s…
First Links — 2.25.15
The Novel as Protestant Art Joseph Bottum, Books & Culture Patriarch Urges Prayer After at Least 90…
Godly Radicalism
One of the great questions of our time is how to understand the relationship between the unprecedented…
Truth or Tribalism?
One Body Through the Cross, the Princeton Proposal for Christianity Unity, criticizes the ecumenical movement for “liberal…
Be What We Are
The Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity (One Body Through the Cross) works within two “poles”: On the…
Division Breeds Diversion
The Princeton Proposal on Christian Unity (In One Body Through the Cross) claims that “division breeds never-ending…
Making Church Visible
In his Unitive Protestantism, John T. McNeill sketches the “communio” ecclesiology of the Reformers: “They interpreted the creedal…
The Tool Is Not Benign
In the debate over the plusses and minuses of social media, it is common to hear a…
First Links — 2.24.15
On Secular Society and Allure of ISIS William E. Carroll, The Catholic Thing Saturday Night Lights Jake…
Witness of Abstinence
Jeremiah 35 introduces the Rechabites. This is a clan within Israel that had refrained from wine, lived…
Gullible Rationalists
One of the delights of Philip Ball’s forthcoming Invisible is to see how frequently rationalists and materialists were have…
