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Robert Morrison, Missionary
The biographical essays in G. Wright Doyle’s Builders of the Chinese Church summarize the lives of nine…
Don’t Make Down Syndrome A Death Sentence
In her Yahoo! Parenting article “I Terminated My Baby with Down Syndrome,” Sophie Horan is not shy about…
Congratulating Wesleyan
Several friends contacted me over the weekend with news that Wesleyan University has taken the ever-expanding list…
First Links — 2.23.15
The Twee Tribe Anna Katharina Schaffner, The Times Literary Supplement Virtue, Family, and Community Micah Mattix, The…
First Links — 2.23.15
The Twee Tribe Anna Katharina Schaffner, The Times Literary Supplement Virtue, Family, and Community Micah Mattix, The…
When Africa Bleeds
Seldom in recent memory has the Western world seemed more united than on January 11, 2015, when…
Political Melodrama
Writing at the Atlantic, Christopher Orr complains that American political satire collapses easily into the standard American genre,…
External Revenue Service
The Economist reports that “”The number of Americans giving up their passports has shot up, from less…
Beleaguered Behemoth
Thomas Kidd and Barry Hankins, both of Baylor University, observe that the story of Baptists in America is…
Presbyterian Environmentalism
As Mark Stoll pursued research on the history of American environmentalism, he discovered that “A huge proportion…
Expulsion and Temptation
Like many of its sister ancient churches of the East, the Armenian Apostolic Church lays special emphasis…
Canadian Doctors’ Religious Freedom Under Threat
Wesley J. Smith’s article “The Coming of Medical Martyrdom” highlights a concern that is ever present in…
In Bondage to Pornography
I have noted numerous times on this blog that the ethics, and increasingly the laws, surrounding sexual…
First Links—2.20.15
Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square Russell E. Saltzman, Aleteia Forty for 40: A…
Of Seals and Marks, Death and Life
Revelation 13:16 is the first use of the word “mark” (charagma). It is a different word from “seal”…
