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Atonement and Jubilee
John Bergsma observes that the year of Jubilee was proclaimed with a trumpet blast on the day…
Phonestheme
Why do so many bad guys and sinister places have names using the syllable “mor”? James Harbeck mentionsMoriarty,…
Impurity
In the prim and sanitized West, we think of purity rules as superstitious and primitive. We have…
Upcoming Events Roundup — 3.14.14
New York, New York For Want of a Vision the People PerishMonday, March 24The Catholic Center at…
What’s Your Social Class?
Here is a fun quiz from the Christian Science Monitor that purports to identify one’s socioeconomic status. The…
First Links — 3.14.14
Americanizing HanukkahRachel Gordan, Marginalia The Cold-Water Appeal of ZibaldoneMorgan Meis, Smart Set Has There Been a “Francis…
In Defense of the Indian Male
Responding to a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that Indian men spend only…
The Unpleasant Mr. Eliot
John Smart’s Tarantula’s Web, on the circle of intellectuals around John Hayward and TS Eliot is, according to Lachlan…
We’re Still Tribesmen
Novelist Amin Malouf was born in Lebanon, and now lives in Paris. He’s a Melchite Christian. As…
Phinehas and Mission
A friend and former student, Pastor C.J. Bowen, writes in response to my recent discussion of Jesus as…
The Passion of Christ in Psalm 23
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I will fear no evil,for you…
Look East for Ecumenism
About three miles northeast of the Hagia Sophia on the Golden Horn one will find the Phanar,…
First Links — 3.13.14
The Idiocracy and Its Discontents Peter Lawler, Library of Law & Liberty The Noble Conrad Theodore Dalrymple,…
Structure in Leviticus 25-26
As many commentators have pointed out, Leviticus 25-26 form a single literary unit. John Bergsma (The Jubilee…
New Phinehas
Jesus’ letter to Pergamum mentions Balaam and Balak (Revelation 2:14), and that is a signal that the…
