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Words and Sentences
Though “word and sentence are interdependent,” argues David Braine (Language and Human Understanding, 2), yet “neither is…
Bloody Greeks
In a 2005 article in Atike Kunst, Gunnel Ekroth examines vase paintings to explore the role blood…
The Narrative Structure of Leviticus
Leviticus contains only two narratives (chs. 10, 24), and its structure is dictated by speeches from Yahweh…
Democracy of the Defiled
In a 2005 Syracuse University dissertation on purity, Yohan Yoo traces some of the changes in purity…
Can One Person Be a Religion?
For those who are interested, the European University Institute in Florence has just published my essay, Defining…
The Golden Ticket That Isn’t Religious Freedom
Because the cake baking controversy of 2014 continues on, Jonathan Merritt has an article at the Atlantic…
Matthew McConaughey and American Manliness
Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar acceptance speech began, to the uncomfortable astonishment of the audience, with his looking heavenward…
Guilty of a Hurt Crime?
Sally Mason, President of the University of Iowa, has been reprimanded by the Regents of said institution for…
First Links — 3.3.14
The Strange Saga of “Jesus Calling” Ruth Graham, Daily Beast The Homeless Modern Mark Mitchell, Intercollegiate Review…
Jealous Mammon
Many have observed the connections between consumerism and abortion. It’s an ancient insight. The prophet Micah charged…
Social Animal
It was much better for God to create humanity from one individual than from several, Augustine argues…
Herbert’s Accessibility
“What kind of an appeal does this have for a reader – especially one from a post-Christian…
Porn and Empire
Augustine discerns an inner connection between imperium and pornography. Imperium is the political form of the libido…
Israel among the Nations
In 1907, Ira M. Price, a member of the original faculty of the University of Chicago and…
Anxious Age
Jody Bottum’s new An Anxious Age is as idiosyncratic, quirky, eloquent, and insightful as its author. Bottum offers…
