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First Links — 4.22.14
The French Zombie Show You Didn’t Even Know You Needed B. D. McClay, The American Spectator Father…
Obama the Sweet-Smelling Flower
Our Forfare Davis has written about the disappointment of some who expected President Obama and his team…
The Sea at the Center
Robert Kaplan argues in Asia’s Cauldron that control of the South China Sea is going to be critical…
Seatback Upright
David Owen’s fascinating New Yorker piece on airline seating included these tidbits. “seat-back video screens and the hard frames…
Una Ecclesia
In his TLS review of Kathryn Walls’s study of the symbolism of Una in Spenser’s Faerie Queene…
The Rainbow and the Throne
When John enters heaven (Revelation 4), He sees the Enthronement as a precious stone, a stone glowing with…
Prologue and Gospel
In his Caused to Believe, William Bonney follows up suggestions from Charles Giblin regarding the structure of John’s…
The Stubborn Myth of the “Warfare” between Science and Religion
Have science and religion historically been at war with each other? This idea is pervasive, deeply ingrained,…
Hi-Tech Philosophy
Anthony Gottlieb uses his review of Rebecca Goldstein’s Plato at the Googleplex to speculate on how ancient philosophers…
State v. the Poor
One of the burdens of William Easterly’s The Tyranny of Experts is that the state is one of…
First Links — 4.21.14
Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain Leslie Jamison, The Virginia Quarterly Review In Damascus, Christians Briefly Ignore…
Lightning, Thunder, Hail
God’s throne in heaven, like Sinai, flashes with lightning, crashes with thunder (Revelation 4:5). Those throne phenomena…
Heaven on earth
Christians walk into church through a door. All of them can come in. There’s no restricted access.…
Seven Stars, Seven Sisters
I explore some of the astral symbolism of the book of Revelation at the Trinity House site.
Christian China
Tom Phillips reports in the Telegraph that China is “poised to become not just the world’s number one…
