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Trinity, Tabernacle, and Mathematics
I confess. I’m a sucker for books on the Trinity, and for books on the tabernacle. When…
Hospice, Defend Yourself!
Hospice is about living, not dying. More precisely, hospice supports life with dignity for its patients and…
History’s Crisis, Europe’s Problem, Our Future
RR. Reno’s lament concerning the breakdown of civility in political discussion arrived just as I was finishing Lynn…
Bestial Covenant
The sea beast wages war against the saints (Revelation 13:7), assisted by the land beast (13:11-15), also…
Thigh of the Peace Offering
In the Levitical law, the priests received two particular portions of each peace offering: the “wave offering”…
Youthening
Robert Pogue Harrison glances at his father’s college yearbook and finds that “twelve-year-old boys looked like little…
Neoteny
Neoteny comes from two Greek words, “new” and “hold.” As Robert Pogue Harrison defines it (Juvenescence, 18),…
Man Tweets at Woman
I follow both David Gibson, a reporter for Religion News Service, and Mollie Hemingway, a writer for…
Upcoming Events—2.4.15
New York Marriage: The Poetry of Every Day February 10Rabbi Sacks, Professor of Judaic Thought at New…
Vaccination, the Nones, and Hobby Lobby
Measles is back. In recent weeks, an outbreak that originated in Southern California has spread across the…
First Links — 2.4.15
Latin Lives Anthony Grafton, The Nation Free Speech Ranking Find Restrictions at 80 per cent of Universities…
Nevin’s Lament, Nevin’s Hope
The following remarks were given to introduce the first annual Nevin Lectures, February 7, 2014. Trinity House…
Structure and Style in Revelation 13
John’s description of the land beast and his work in Revelation 13:11-15 is organized in a fairly…
UnProtestant Protestants
Robert McAfee Brown summarizes The Spirit of Protestantism as “an openness to the judging and renewing activity of…
Music and the Body
Daniel Albright (Panaesthetics) emphasizes the learned codes by which we discern musical meanings: “Today most of the…
