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Iraq’s Christians Need Our Help
For people seeking to understand the crisis facing the Christians of Iraq, there’s an interesting panel discussion…
Age of Bull, Age of Ram
Giorgio de Santillana (Hamlet’s Mill, 59-60) gives a brief description of the sun’s precessional “year” as it…
Darwinian Age
De Santillana (Hamlet’s Mill, 68) on our the soporific of Darwin: “Our period may some day be…
Lamb and Cherub
When John first sees four multi-eyed living creatures, they are in the midst of the heavenly throne…
Pushy Pilgrims
“It’s the journey that matters in the end.” Hasn’t that aphorism, in one form or another, appeared…
First Links — 8.1.14
Does Universalism Create a World Without Consequences? Leah Libresco, Unequally Yoked Restoring Religious Liberty, Reviving Political Liberty…
Fault in the Stars
Giorgio de Santillana’s Hamlet’s Mill is an exercise in un-forgetting. Ancients believed the world moved through various ages:…
Magus of Britain
In an essay written around 1942, John Maynard Keynes beautifully captured the archaic character of Isaac Newton: …
Cosmic Myth
Giorgio de Santillana argued that mythology was not historical but cosmological (Hamlet’s Mill, 50): “whatever is true…
Pneumatology and the Neighbor
One of the most intriguing claims in Travis Ables’s Incarnational Realism is that “Christology and pneumatology do not…
Station VI of the Cross
VI. Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus He stopped a moment, when her eyesMet his and grieved…
Earth and Sky
In his Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks, Jean Richer writes, “during more than two thousand years, the…
The Three
In his classic work on the Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations, Cyrus Gordon points to a…
Terf Wars
This week’s New Yorker carries an instructive essay by Michelle Goldberg, ‘What is Woman?’, which addresses a…
First Links — 7.31.14
My Church Loyalties, Or: Why I Don’t ConvertD. Stephen Long, Christian Century Can the Caliphate Last?Charlie Cooper,…
