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First Links — 3.26.14
Hobby Lobby Argument RecapLyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog The Annunciation and the One RingIsaac Augustine Morales, Dominicana The…
Not Boiled
In his famed “culinary triangle” (see Food and Culture: A Reader) Claude Levi-Strauss suggested a triple classification of…
Two Updates on Syria’s Christians
Two updates on last week’s post about the persecution of Christians in Syria –one hopeful, one much…
Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, and the Outsider
George Pattison’s closing essay in Dostoevsky and the Christian Traditionexplores the similarities between Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky. It’s been…
Sermon in a Tavern
In her contribution to Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition, Diane Thompson offers a brilliant analysis of Marmeladov’s speech…
Dostoevsky the Liberal?
So, this is a moment of dialog with myself. I have been musing on Bakhtin and Dostoevsky,…
Do Guard Duty
Jesus comes like a thief to the unsuspecting, the sleepy (Revelation 3:3). That doesn’t simply mean that…
A Cheer for Bishop Berkeley
Milbank suggests that Berkeley makes some important breakthroughs in working out a Christian understanding of language and…
Jews, Christians, and the State of Israel
This coming Monday, March 31st, the Tikvah fund will host an event titled “Jews, Christians, and the…
First Links — 3.25.14
An Uncomfortable Spiritual AutobiographyPascal Emmanuel-Gobry, Inebriate Me Baseness for the BaseAnthony Esolen, Intercollegiate Review End of the…
John Piper’s New Calvinism
John Piper recently gave a lecture at Westminster Theological Seminary about the New Calvinism that is already…
What Saint Paul Originally Said
Larry Hurtado, professor emeritus of New Testament at the University of Edinburgh, has been blogging his reflections…
The End of Entertainment?
David Thomson (at TNR) thinks that Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, and his legacy of acting, raises some…
Roth’s Reversal
Philip Roth famously announced last year that he was quitting. Writing in the TLS, Adan Thirlwell suggests that…
Dostoevsky’s Moral Fiction
In an essay on Dostoevsky and evil in Between Religion and Rationality, Joseph Frank observes that Dostoevsky frequently…