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First Links – 10.3.14

The Editors

The Synod Without A Script Massimo Faggioli, The Tablet The St. John’s Bible: Back to the Future…

Shepherd-Martyrs

Peter J. Leithart

An excerpt from a chapel homily at Tri-City Christian School, Somersworth, New Hampshire. Christians are always called…

Simplifying Scripture

Peter J. Leithart

Adonis Vidu (Atonement, Law, and Justice) focuses much of his attention on the import that the “doctrine”…

Unified Action

Peter J. Leithart

Adonis Vidu (Atonement, Law, and Justice) argues that “What simplicity, or the perfection of divine agency, helps us…

Suffer the Children

Nathaniel Peters

The discussion preceding the synod of bishops on the family has ignored the most vulnerable party in…

The Real Catholic Debate

Mark Movsesian

At the Center for Law and Religion Forum, Robert Delahunty has an insightful and thought-provoking post, “The…

Seeking Self or Costly Discipleship?

David T. Koyzis

The world is definitely smaller than it was even a decade ago, and, through the Internet and…

First Links — 10.2.14

The Editors

Ghosts of Colson & Neuhaus Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Automation Nation Mark Bauerlein, The Weekly Standard…

U2’s Thickening Ecclesiology

Peter J. Leithart

A decade ago, a critic at Christianity Today worried about U2’s “thin ecclesiology.” Though openly Christian, Bono…

Like a Young Kid

Peter J. Leithart

On his way to visit a pleasing woman in Timnah, Samson is attacked by a lion (Judges…

Events Roundup — 10.1.14

The Editors

Beyond Liberalism and Cultural Wars: A More Inclusive Pluralism Thursday, October 2 New York, NY: “A conversation…

First Links – 10.1.14

The Editors

The Troubling Persistence of Eugenicist Thought in Modern America Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week Apple vs. the…

Jugation and Hierarchy

Peter J. Leithart

I summarize and interact with more of Naphtali Meshel’s The “Grammar” of Sacrifice at the Trinity House site, examining…

Epic Tetris

Peter J. Leithart

“It’s a very big, epic sci-fi movie,” says Larry Kasanoff of Threshold Entertainment. He’s talking about a movie…

Evangelical Atheism

Peter J. Leithart

John Gray’s TNR review of Richard Dawkins’s An Appetite for Wonder is the very definition of withering. It…