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Theocracy and Toleration
Van Ruler is an advocate of “theocracy,” but he at the same time insists that toleration is…
Nature or Nurture?
Bad question, says Justin Barrett (Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology, 26): “No aspect of our biological development,…
McCarthy’s Gnosticism
A TLS review of two books of the Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy notes the hints of…
Among Children
Stephen Walsh’s Musorgsky and His Circletells the story of the moguchaya kuchka the “Might Little Heap” of Russian…
What Happened in Waco?
Malcolm Gladwell’s lengthy essayon the Branch Davidians normalizes and humanizes a group that even to American Christians was…
Holiness, Ethics, and Ritual
I review Leigh Trevaskis’s Holiness, Ethics, and Ritual in Leviticusat the Trinity House site. Click here.
Chiasm of Defects
Trevaskis (Holiness, Ethics, and Ritual in Leviticus) proposes a chiastic outline of Leviticus 21-22: Priestly defects (Lev.…
The How I Met Your Mother finale was an April Fools joke
Remember how, towards the end of the Wayne’s World movies, Wayne and Garth would do ridiculous endings…
Evangelicals opposed abortion much earlier than you think
More and more writers—most recently Jamelle Bouie—are confidently asserting that Evangelicals were once pro-choice, but under the influence…
First Links — 4.1.14
Advice for a Happy LifeCharles Murray, Wall Street Journal When Revolutions Hit RealityOrlando Figes, Lapham’s Quarterly The…
Presiding at Death
In his masterful study of ancient Greek Miasma, Robert Parker notes death was intensely defiling: “Extramural burial was…
Disturbance
A.A. van Ruler argues that “Israel is the great disturbing factor in the paganism of the world’s…
Married at 25: Too Young or Too Old?
Charles Murray has an interesting piece at the Wall Street Journal, outlining his five rules for living…
Russophiles, Anglophiles
Donald Rayfield reviews two recent essay collections on cultural relations between England and Russia in the TLS:…
Practical Texts?
Are the ritual texts of Leviticus “practical” texts designed to guide priests and people in sacrificial and…
