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First Links — 7.17.14
Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry Lorraine Daston, The Point Israel at War with Hamas and Itself…
In Defense of Christian Perfectionism
Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion & Democracy has responded to my take on the rise…
Son of Ammon
According to Egyptian mythology, Osiris was the son of Ra, who later became associated with Amon. In…
Subversive Sleep
Jonathan Crary begins his 24/7 describing experiments to increase the time that soldiers can stay awake and alert. 24/7…
Noticing
Building on the work of David Kahneman (Thinking, Fast and Slow), and Cass Sustein (Nudge), and others,…
Where are Yahweh’s Eyes?
Isaiah 66 begins with an obvious allusion to this prayer. Yahweh claims to sit enthroned in heaven…
Payday
Isaiah 66:6 would make a neat movie scene. First we hear a voice of tumult, a voice…
#BringBack OurChristians
Last spring, Boko Haram, a jihadist group fighting to establish an Islamist state in Nigeria, kidnapped hundreds…
A Proposal: Schedule Thought
Very few calendars contain the entry “6:30a.m.—Meditate” or “12:00p.m.—Ponder Intently” or the occasional “9:00p.m.—Think Deliberately.” Rather, we…
First Links — 7.16.14
Alice in Borderland Charles Foran, The Walrus The News is Born Julianne Werlin, Los Angeles Review of…
Song of Paradise
Yael Klangwisan’s Earthing the Cosmic Queen offers a couple of distinct theoretical frameworks for interpreting the Song of…
Singing Witness
Christians in the US are entering a period of crisis that will lead to martyrdom. Perhaps the…
Sacrificial Enthronement
When Noah (noach) brings the ark to its resting place (nuach) on Ararat, he offers an ascension…
Mathematical Art
The TLS reviewer of a recent Mondrian exhibit observes that Mondrian spent the final years of his…
Spenser’s sources
Edmund Spenser’s style in the Fairie Queene was odd even when he first wrote it, and Spenser…
