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Lacan in the Stars
Aron Dunlap (Lacan and Religion) summarizes Lacan’s theory of the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real: “The…
The Good Historian Resembles an Ogre
On April 1st of this year, the great French medievalist Jacques Le Goff died at the age of…
Can Gay Love Really Be Straight?
Mark Joseph Stern at Slate takes issue with my criticisms of what I call “the rhetoric of sameness”…
First Links — 7.22.14
Saving Normal in a World Gone Mad Helene Guldberg, Spiked On “Courage” in the Christian Academy James K.…
Perichoresis and Patripassianism
Donald Macleod’s Christ Crucified is largely a defense of a traditional Protestant understanding of penal substitutionary atonement. As…
Covenant Atonement
Michael J. Gorman expresses some surprise in his The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the…
Living Buildings
Few human creations seem as permanent as buildings. Roman structures are still standing in Europe, and cathedrals…
Atheists in America
The “new atheism” has given atheists in America a new lease on life, but there have been…
Who is Hillary?
At the New Republic, Anne Applebaum tries to pinpoint the genre of Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices. Too superficial…
Framing Isaiah
In a 1 993 JSOT article, Anthony Tomasino examines the beginning (1:1-2:4) and end (63-66) of the…
“N” is for Solidarity
Breitbart News reports Sebastian Gorka’s claim that last week the Islamic State in Mosul “painted the letter…
Dissent and Mormon Mission
In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, Cadence Woodland argued that the Mormon Church…
First Links — 7.21.14
Stratford Caldecott’s Conversion Story Dwight Longenecker, Standing on My Head The Reformicons: A Discussion William A. Galston,…
Third Schism
One of the intriguing ideas in Deep Church Rising, written by Andrew G. Walker and Robin Parry, is…
Musical Wit
After wonderful books on Bach, Handel, and the early Christian understanding of music, Calvin Stapert had added…
