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Humble Champions
“What makes this team special?” a reporter asked UVA basketball coach Tony Bennett after his Cavaliers beat…
Interruptive Word
David Nelson’s The Interruptive Word is a lucid exploration of the difficult theology of Eberhard Jungel, stressing, as…
Speech, Space, Time
Rosenstock-Huessy argues in Speech and Reality that speech creates space and time: “Without speech, the phenomena of time…
Poetry About Nothing
Deflating postmodern irony has been a long time coming. Donald Nichol sees it aborning already in the heyday…
How an Ancient Greek Awakened an Undergrad from Dogmatic Slumbers
Recently Cornel West and I visited Swarthmore College, where I received my undergraduate education, for a day…
DeGirolami on That Arizona Law
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum today, my colleague Marc DeGirolami has a trenchant post…
NPR’s Disturbing Prenatal Testing Story
Yesterday NPR’s Morning Edition reported on advances in the development of precise prenatal tests for Down syndrome…
First Links — 2.28.14
Ukraine’s Changing Churches B. C., Economist Jews and the Military: A New Perspective Avi Woolf, Mida How…
Outsourcing Romance
Evan Selinger reports at Wired on BroApp, which helps you manage relationships by sending automated messages to the…
Other Worlds
Astronomers keep discovering undiscovered planets: “NASA . . . announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a…
Seal of Baptism
In an 1873 article in the Mercersburg Review, E.V. Gerhart, a professor at Mercersburg seminary, argued that…
Renewed in Baptism
E.V. Gerhart argues in his 1873 Mercersburg Review article that the Heidelberg Catechism teaches that “Baptism makes…
Historicism’s Dilemmas
At the beginning of her The Philosophical Question of Christ, Caitlin Smith Gilson sketches the multiple dilemmas of…
Charismatics, Magisterials, and Rome
Dale, in light of recent events I am grateful that I was hindered from making a timely…
The Conscience of Thomas More and the Little Sisters of the Poor
With the battle raging between the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Federal government on the…
