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Fire or Tears
There are ten uses of “eye” in Revelation, nine of them in the plural (the exception is…
Kuyper’s Common Grace
Common grace has played a large role in Calvinist thinking about culture. For some, it is this…
Solving the Piketty Problem
Alex Tabarrok has as solution to the problem of capital accumulation that Thomas Piketty identifies as the driver of…
Godziller
Watch the trailer and tell me that Godzilla hasn’t become Godziller. Now I have proof. One “Dr.…
Once More Unto the Bourgeois Breach Dear Friends
Greg, as always, thanks for taking the time to engage. As I read him, Dawson is not…
First Links — 5.8.14
Evangelicals and Catholics Together Marks 20 Years Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service Farmers: This Lady Wants…
A Call for Help for Mideast Christians
Yesterday, more than 200 American Christians issued a statement calling for action on behalf of persecuted Mideast…
Divine Carelessness
Daniel Gabelman’s George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity spends a lot of time developing a historic perspective…
Modern Worship
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy observed that moderns are as inclined to divine service and attachment to gods as the…
Socializing Paul
Theodore Jennings wants to socialize and politicize Paul. He thinks that highlighting Paul’s concerns for classic political…
Birth of Liberalism
Russell Shorto’s Amsterdam is not only a biography of the city, but a genealogy of the “tattered, ancient,…
Living Theodrama
Inspired by Balthasar, Kevin Vanhoozer, Sam Wells and others, many theologians are working within a theatrical model…
Seriously Dangerous
There’s much to like in Iain Provan’s Seriously Dangerous Religion. The book presents the Bible’s answers to a…
On the Importance of Place
One of the natural loves that humans possess is a love of place. Bubbling up from love…
First Links — 5.7.14
At Midnight, All the Economists Gabriel Rossman, the American Scene Pop Versus Politics: Russia Steels Itself for…