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Faith, Hope, and Love in Public
It’s easy for Christians to become frustrated with the state of the world, but frustration is ineffective…
Grace of the Void
The Void is one of the essential dimensions of humanness, argues Esther Lightcap Meek (A Little Manual…
Dance of Knowledge
Knowing follows the “dynamic of dance,” writes Esther Lightcap Meek (A Little Manual for Knowing, 79). The…
Art and the World’s Repair
The essays on art collected in Tikkun Olamoriginated from Gillian Rose’s “broken middle,” writes editor Jason Goroncy. He…
Becoming The Party Of Hope
David Frum looks at Pew Data on the young and concludes that “The millennial generation will be a…
Profaning the Name
How can Yahweh’s name be profaned? Can holiness leak out? In a recent Princeton dissertation (This Is…
Psychic Sophie and the Rise of the Nones
For those who are interested, the European University Institute has just published my article, Defining Religion in…
The GOP’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Christie Thinks
Chris Christie came to the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC last week with a self-serving message.…
Form and Void in True Detective’s Finale
Admirers of HBO’s True Detective had been expecting, in advance of its Finale, that Season One would stick…
First Links — 3.12.14
On Monastic Papacies C. C. Pecknold, Ethika Politika The Paradox of Individualism Mark S. Weiner, Cato Unbound…
Theology of Festivtiy
I offer some reflections on the theology of festivityin the Hebrew Bible, focused on Leviticus 23.
Leviticus as Creation Week
In a highly provocative VT article from 2009, Leigh M. Trevaskis points to the emphasis on Sabbath…
Outside the Camp
Leigh Trevaskis offers an intriguing, helpful discussion of the man stoned for blasphemy in Leviticus 24. Recent…
The Tin Ear of Criticism
It’s hard to find interesting work on Leviticus 23. It’s easy to find tedious critical dissections of…
First Month
Yahweh’s pesach is to take place on the fourteenth day of the first (ri’shown) month (Leviticus 23:5).…
