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Mideast Christians & ISIS
On February 18, St. John’s University Law School will host a panel, “Threat to Justice: Middle Eastern…
Redemption at the Drive-Thru
This week I read two articles that seem to capture the the contradictory impulses of this present…
First Links — 2.12.15
Some Clarifications on Catholic Integralism Gabriel Sanchez, Opus Publicum SCOTUS & SSM: The Fix Is In Rod…
Signs of Contradiction
The billboards are relentless on this highway that cuts through the heart of our country (Missouri, that…
Christian and Pagan Charity
Richard Finn begins his Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire with a summary of the Sentences of Sextus,…
Proverbial Sacrifices
C. John Collins has observed that it is common to set Torah and the Wisdom books in…
Foreknown Freedom
Cicero wanted to defend the reality of human freedom against the Stoics. But the issue of divine…
Summer Seminars at the Witherspoon Institute
The Witherspoon Institute (where I direct the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the…
Famous Communists and Islam
For some time, an argument has been made that the liberal left, in refusing to examine the…
First Links — 2.11.15
From Campus Bullies to Empty Churches Mary Eberstadt, Intercollegiate Review What is an @uthor? Matthew Kirschenbaum, LA…
Forgiveness
Solomon’s prayer at the temple dedication (1 Kings 8) is a prayer about prayer. It’s a prayer…
Glass Half Full
Big law is dying says Benjamin Barton in his forthcoming Glass Half Full. In fact, it’s dying four…
Moses in the Church
In his massive study of Jewish Influence on Christian Reform Movements , Louis Newman claims that the “Mosaic…
Un-Presidential Remarks
President Obama’s words at the National Prayer Breakfast have become yet another controversy in the long list…
First Links — 2.10.15
Obama the Theologian Ross Douthat, The New York Times The Insanity Offence David Warren, Essays in Idleness…
