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How Identity Politics Don’t Allow Debate
It seems that almost every week there is a new story about the eclipse of freedom of…
First Links—11.19.14
Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue Adam Sternbergh, New York Magazine The…
The Slain God
Timothy Larson of Wheaton has written a number of illuminating, witty books. His latest, The Slain God, examines…
Liturgy. A Parable
You know how the curtain parts at the beginning of a play, and you see a new…
Glory of the Man
1 Kings begins with a brief story about David, aging and cold, unable to stay warm at…
The Thunder and the Book
John’s encounter with the strong angel from heaven is described with a chiasm, and that structure helps…
First Links—11.18.14
The Hard Work of Marriage Zoe Heller, The New York Review of Books Peter Thiel’s Guide to…
Barth on Justification
Barth’s theology of justification has many virtues. Let me highlight only a couple of them. For starters,…
Impure God
Vladimir Jankelevitch (Le Pur et l’Impur, 11) observes that we apply the concept of purity to wine and…
A Time to Rend
It’s time to make a clear distinction between the government-enforced legal regime of marriage and the biblical…
On Marriage and Temple Desecration
The Vatican is sponsoring this week (Nov 17–19) an international colloquium on the complementarity of man and…
William Giraldi and Civilization’s Unraveling
William Giraldi’s Hold the Dark, its jacket copy proclaims, is “an Alaskan Oresteia.” The comparison is perfectly…
A Theology of Sport: On the Rebound
In his helpful review of my recent work, Peter J. Leithart raises two important questions about the…
First Links—11.17.14
John Cleese on Monty Python and the State of Comedy Alexandra Wolfe, The Wall Street Journal In…
It Takes A God
A great Cur Deus Homo moment from Barth (Church Dogmatics, IV.1, 553): “What we men must suffer…
