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Setting Tables
The first table setting in the Bible is the table of showbread in the tabernacle, set with…
Communion in the Piety of the Reformed Church
Hughes Oliphant Old is the dean of Reformed liturgical scholars, and he has crowned his career with…
Philosophy of Death
Peter Sloterdijk opens his Art of Philosophy (9-10) with a summary of the “epistemic suspended animation” that philosophy…
Eros and Ritual
Evangelia Anagostou-Laoutides’s Eros and Ritual in Ancient Literature is a complex, footnote-stuffed delight. She examines three myths with…
Nature, Supernature, Science
John Walton argues in The Lost World of Genesis 1 (114) that the Bible attributes to God things…
Justice Sotomayor’s Puzzling Dissent in the Wheaton College Case
The battle over the ACA’s Contraception Mandate continues. Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted a temporary injunction to Wheaton…
The Rise of Protestant Perfectionism
Today we are witnessing the re-emergence of a Protestant perfectionist vision of the Christian life. This vision…
FIRST LINKS — 7.03.14
Praying for Radiation Ashley Makar, Whether Magazine Reading Lessons of a Religious Upbringing Without Modern Books Sarah…
European Human Rights Court to France: Do Whatever You Want
This week, Americans understandably have been occupied with the Hobby Lobby case and its implications for religious…
Buffering Abortion Speech
On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided to strike down as unconstitutional the 2007 Massachusetts law which mandated…
Sports: A Moral World?
Injury embellishment and related on-field drama always gets a lot of press during the World Cup. Collin…
FIRST LINKS — 7.02.14
Opera is Not Just Our Most Expensive Noise Roger Scruton, Standpoint Belted, Booted and Buckled: B-Movie Title…
Human, All Too Human?
On the assumption that the staff at The Onion have not hacked into Slate, it would seem…
What Christians Agreed On
Elesha Coffman’s analysis of the rise of the Christian Century and mainline Protestantism is fascinating reading. Toward the…
Accreditation and Religious Colleges
Of all the bones to pick with contemporary American higher education—and there are many—the University of Pennsylvania’s Peter…
