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Individualist Collectivism
I have a great deal of sympathy with Jose Miranda’s claim (in Marx and the Bible) that Paul…
Planned Parenthood and Other Catholic Volunteer Opportunities
The Biology Department of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota publicizes volunteer opportunities on their…
Public Schools and the Wall of Separation
The famous phrase “wall of separation of church and state” today enjoys the status of legal precedent,…
First Links — 12.10.14
The Optimistic Science of Leibniz Marc E. Bobro, The New Atlantis The Coming Democratization of Contemporary Art…
Baptized into the New Age
John Dunnill (Body and Sacrifice, 128-9) argues that for Paul baptism is more than a “sign” of…
Sacrificial death?
In some ways, Daniel Ullucci’s The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice helpfully complicates our picture of views on…
The Universe is a Kitchen
In a recent article in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Natalie Gummer lays out…
Horizontal Hierarchy
In his monograph on Israel’s Tabernacle as Social Space, Mark George makes the observation that tabernacle space is…
Kowtowing to Moscow = Bad Ecumenism
In his tireless work for Christian unity, St. John Paul II often expressed the hope that Christianity…
Whose Gender? Which Identity?
The Minnesota State High School League has caused something of a media storm by adopting a new…
Oil and ISIS
Despite the dramatic drop in the price of oil—over 40 percent in just a few months—Saudi Arabia…
First Links—12.9.14
Who Should Own the Internet? Julian Asange, The New York Times Censors at Work: How States Shape…
Cosmic Sacrifice
John Dunnill’s summary of the interconnections of gift, creation, covenant, sacrifice, and Trinity is lovely (Sacrifice and…
More Outward Sacrifice
Summarizing the prophetic critique of sacrifice, John Dunnill (Sacrifice and the Body, 38) rebuts Roland de Vaux’s…
No Natural Body
Bodies are objects, but beginning with Husserl philosophers, anthropologists and others have considered not the objective character…
