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Fire or Tears

Peter J. Leithart

There are ten uses of “eye” in Revelation, nine of them in the plural (the exception is…

Kuyper’s Common Grace

Peter J. Leithart

Common grace has played a large role in Calvinist thinking about culture. For some, it is this…

Solving the Piketty Problem

Peter J. Leithart

Alex Tabarrok has as solution to the problem of capital accumulation that Thomas Piketty identifies as the driver of…

Godziller

Peter J. Leithart

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

Dale M. Coulter

Greg, as always, thanks for taking the time to engage. As I read him, Dawson is not…

First Links — 5.8.14

Tristyn K. Bloom

Evangelicals and Catholics Together Marks 20 Years Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service Farmers: This Lady Wants…

A Call for Help for Mideast Christians

Mark Movsesian

Yesterday, more than 200 American Christians issued a statement calling for action on behalf of persecuted Mideast…

Divine Carelessness

Peter J. Leithart

Daniel Gabelman’s George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity spends a lot of time developing a historic perspective…

Modern Worship

Peter J. Leithart

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy observed that moderns are as inclined to divine service and attachment to gods as the…

Socializing Paul

Peter J. Leithart

Theodore Jennings wants to socialize and politicize Paul. He thinks that highlighting Paul’s concerns for classic political…

Birth of Liberalism

Peter J. Leithart

Russell Shorto’s Amsterdam is not only a biography of the city, but a genealogy of the “tattered, ancient,…

Living Theodrama

Peter J. Leithart

Inspired by Balthasar, Kevin Vanhoozer, Sam Wells and others, many theologians are working within a theatrical model…

Seriously Dangerous

Peter J. Leithart

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

Dale M. Coulter

One of the natural loves that humans possess is a love of place. Bubbling up from love…

First Links — 5.7.14

Tristyn K. Bloom

At Midnight, All the Economists Gabriel Rossman, the American Scene Pop Versus Politics: Russia Steels Itself for…