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Unparents
University of Cape Town professor David Benatar argues answers the question “How many children should we have” with a…
Unsealed and Sealed
The Lamb receives a scroll that is sealed with seven seals (Revelation 5). One by one, He…
A Deceitful Bow
Joseph is the bow-tribe, according to Genesis 49:23-24: Though attached by archers, his hands are strong to…
Comet Lore
“Stars are suddenly formed in the heavens themselves,” Pliny writes in his Natural History (II.22). “Of these there…
Google Space
Sim Van der Ryn’s Design for an Empathic World is a brief for person-centered design, design that takes…
The Poor Poetry of Death
We are planning another funeral, one of the small duties of which is selecting materials for inclusion…
More Thoughts on Exile
I was delighted to see that Rod Dreher has used my article on the church in exile…
Why the U.S. Should Offer Asylum to Iraqi Christians
France has offered to facilitate asylum for Iraqi Christians who have fled Mosul since the takeover of…
First Links — 7.30.14
Conscience and the Law: A Bumpy RideHadley Arkes, Catholic Thing More Engaging Copy for the Ten CommandmentsDavid…
Copyright Wars
Artists can be awfully protective of their work. In his forthcoming Copyright Wars, Peter Baldwin observes that Samuel…
Deception undone
As long as he’s in heaven preying on the child of the woman, he is called “dragon”…
Theology and Human Experience
There’s a kind of theology that effectively denies human experience. You may think and feel that X…
Dean Koontz’s Reading Assignments
I’ve liked Dean Koontz since reading Relentless, where the heroes are a family of home-schooling survivalists. Take that,…
River
I have written on the biblical theology of rivers in the past, arguing that, unlike the sea, rivers…
Doubles and a Fourth
Travis Ables’s Incarnational Realism is a very fine book, a monograph to learn from, to grapple and battle…
