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Solzhenitsyn on Russia and Ukraine
The late novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn comes as close as anyone to being one of my heroes. In…
First Links — 3.28.14
U.S.-Vatican Reset Not in the CardsJohn L. Allen, Boston Globe Generation Alienation and the LibertariansJohn Allen Gay,…
Theopoetic
Amos Wilder’s Theopoetic, recently reprinted in Wipf & Stock’s Amos Wilder LIbrary, is a plea for a renewal…
Word among words
Diane Thompson concludes her essay in Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition with this superb description of the place…
Witness, Judge, World
Consciousness enters the world and the stones remain stones and the sun the sun. Still existence becomes…
Whores with Hearts of Gold
Nabokov didn’t much like Dostoevsky. What interests him in literature is “enduring art and individual genius,” and…
Stand-up Anthropology
At the 1993 conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, Marshall Sahlins was invited…
Fruitful Cut
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz (The Savage in Judaism) traces most every form of impurity in ancient Israel back to…
Sweetness and Power
Honey from the Lion: Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalismby Doug GaySCM Press, 2013. 192 pages Later…
In Praise of Evangelical Identity
Of all the back-and-forth that came from the World Vision imbroglio this week, there’s at least one…
First Links — 3.27.14
America’s Class System Across the Life CycleMatt Bruening, Demos/Policyshop How Music Criticism Became Lifestyle ReportingTed Gioia, Daily…
Prophetic Liturgy
Tercio Bretanha Junker’s Prophetic Liturgyhas much to commend it. Junker aims to show how the church is trained…
Lord of the Lake
Stepan Trofimovich, the vain Francophone liberal in Dostoevsky’s Demons, claims to know the gospels well from reading Renan, but…
Materialism in Defense of Faith
In a dense paragraph, Milbank (“Theology Without Substance, Part 1,” Journal of Literature and Theology, 1988) draws…
Animals in Israel
Drawing from Robertson Smith, Howard Eilberg-Schwartz lists numerous biblical characters with animal names (The Savage in Judaism,…
