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Rectify
With a single line, Matt Zoller Seitz captures the quiet power of the Sundance TV series, Rectify, recently renewed…
Body vs. Brain
Facebook users have run across a quiz purporting to measure one’s mental age against one’s actual physical…
The Church of England and Moral Hazard
I doubt anyone in the Church of England who knows Rev. Stephen Sizer was surprised that he…
Gender Integration as the Answer
At Wesleyan University, that’s the solution to the problem. There are only a few fraternities on or…
Video: Religious Freedom for Mideast Christians
The Lanier Theological Library in Houston has posted the video of a lecture I presented last month, “Religious…
First Links – 10.8.14
The Christian Element in the Hong Kong Protests Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest Confessions of an…
The Genesis Flood
Opening Heaven’s Floodgates, edited by Jason Silverman, is a wide-ranging collection of essays about the “Genesis flood…
Those Dour Swedes
Dwight Garner isn’t the first to wonder if the Swedish Academy’s commitment to honor “work of an idealistic tendency”…
The Meaning of Sacrifice
A final installment of my review of Naphtali Meshel’s The “Grammar” of Sacrifice.
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Atonement
It’s common to distinguish two different types of atonement theory – objective and subjective. Objective theories stress…
Knowing in the Biblical Sense
People who don’t know much bout the Bible still know what “knowing in the biblical sense” means.…
The Thirty Years’ War in Italy
The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, his Soldiers, and his Subjects in the Thirty…
Who Are the Real Catholic Reformers?
As the Synod on the Family opens this week, Catholics and other attentive observers should be careful…
Lessons from Lepanto
For months leading up to the Battle of Lepanto, fought on this day 443 years ago, Pope…
First Links – 10.7.14
Lecrae: Christians Have Prostituted Art to Give Answers Emma Green, The Atlantic The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson…
