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The Coming of Medical Martyrdom
Doctors don’t take the Hippocratic Oath anymore, and haven’t for several decades. The oath’s ethical proscriptions against…
The Courts and the Impossibility of Autonomy
Earlier this month the Supreme Court of Canada delivered its long-awaited decision in Carter v Canada, known…
First Links — 2.19.15
College, Poetry, and Purpose Frank Bruni, The New York Times Landfall Gabriel Olearnik, Dappled Things Jailhouse Feminism…
“We” Humans
In a series of studies, Michael Tomasello and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology…
How God Comes To Reign
After the two witnesses, the seventh angel blows the seventh trumpet, and loud voices of praise break…
Lion Tribes
Solomon’s throne had six steps (1 Kings 10), with two lions flanking each step. That means 12…
50 Years from T. S. Eliot
Much already has been and will be said about T. S. Eliot this year, which marks a…
The Jon Stewart Effect
One of the memorable media events of the 2000s took place when Jon Stewart appeared as a…
First Links — 2.18.15
Digitizing the Humanities Armand Marie Leroi, The New York Times Lenten Homilies: A Single Author Anthology Sandro…
Structure in Revelation 11
The account of the two witnesses (Revelation 11:3-13) is arranged in a chiastic order: A. Two witnesses,…
The Double
Richard Ayoade’s 2013 The Double, based on a Dostoevsky novella, is a dark comedy in every sense…
Receptivity and Lack
Building on John Paul II’s theology of the body, Adam Cooper’s Holy Eros sketches out a “liturgical theology…
A Theology of Martyrdom
ISIS has beheaded twenty-0ne Egyptian Christians in Libya. What should the Church do? How do we respond?…
Picturing Mary, Seeing Satan
Washington, D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts has since December hosted an exhibit focused on…
Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?
“Who’s afraid of modern art?” asks Daniel Siedell. He answers, “I am.” As critic and curator, Siedell…
