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First Links — 9.30.14
The Transfigured Earth: Jubilee and the Transformation of Watersheds Jonathan McRay, The Other Journal Four Responses to…
Engaging John, Engaging One Another
The Paradosis Center of John Brown University put on an ecumenical conference on the gospel of John…
Narrow, Repetitive Road
The TLS reviewer says that Richard Flannagan aspires to poetry, and fails dismally, in his Man Booker…
Atonement and Theology
In his recent Atonement, Law, and Justice, Adonis Vidu examines historical atonement theories in relation to accepted notions…
Advice for Grad School Students
It took me five years of graduate school to realize that my study is a vocation. My…
Duty and Delight
It is difficult to spend much time on the Internet without tripping over advice—reams of it—on marriage.…
First Links — 9.29.14
Not At All Commonplace: Goodbye to D.G. Meyers Rohan Maitzen, Open Letters Monthly I Love to Hate…
Was Jesus A Pauper?
David Fiensy tries to avoid “polar opposites” in the essays collected in Christian Origins and the Ancient…
Wall Street Temptations
In an insightful piece at BloombergView, Michael Lewis analyzes the ways Wall Street affects the character of the…
Animal Grammar
The first installment of a review of Naphtali Meshel’s The “Grammar” of Sacrifice at the Trinity House site.
Dietrich von Hildebrand and Our Times
When Dietrich von Hildebrand died in 1977, his passing went largely unnoticed. The New York Times, to…
Rescuing Warriors from Muscular Christianity
Mathew, I don’t think we can reduce the role of the warrior in the Bible as low as…
Millennial Idol Lena Dunham Talks Politics
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund has sent out an email message about the upcoming election from Lena…
Women and the Culture of Evangelicalism
Last Friday the Gender Parity Project released the results of its study of the role of women…
What Old Age Has to Offer
In a much-discussed Atlantic essay, “Why I Hope to Die at 75,” Ezekiel Emanuel—physician, public commentator, and…
