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What Scotland Will Decide
In Comment, Jonathan Chaplin helpfully defines the decision to be made in Scotland’s referendum next week. To clarify…
Coen Brother Populism
The Atlantic is running a series of essays on Coen Brothers’ films (are they Brothers, or just…
A Sad Episode
This week in Washington, a major conference took place on the persecution of Mideast Christians. The conference…
The President’s Speech
In his address to the nation Wednesday night, President Barack Obama committed the U.S. to doing something…
What Can We Say of God?
Stephen R. Holmes argues in his contribution to Two Views of the Doctrine of the Trinity that “the doctrine…
Mammon, A Jealous God
At the Financial Times blog, Shaomin Li, Ilan Alon, and Jun Wu report on their research into the…
A Village Isn’t Enough
Explaining the title of his book, Singing the Ethos of God, Brian Brock offers a critique of communitarian…
Whom Are We Arming?
President Obama said this week that part of the US strategy for containing the Islamic State is…
Simplicity’s Not So Simple
Is God simple? Christian theologians from the Cappadocians to Aquinas said Yes. But did they mean the…
What Yahweh Does
Like most of the lists in Deuteronomy, the list describing Yahweh’s power in 11:2-7 is carefully patterned.…
A Company That Won’t Hire Men
The New York Times reports the founding of a new company here in New York. It’s called SheTaxis—SheRides. Here’s…
Same Old Paul
In his introduction to Paul in the Grip of the Philosophers, Peter Frick cleverly observes that contemporary philosophers…
Un-Peculiar Institution
Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death begins with the claim that, far from being a “peculiar institution,” slavery…
They’re Lying
Airlines lie about what’s wrong with the plane, and how long it will be before it gets…
Doctrine of the Trinity
In his contribution to Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity, Stephen R. Holmes characterizes the doctrine…
