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Sabbath Bread
When Israel tried to reserve some manna and keep it overnight, it rotted and sprouted worms. Except…
Remembering Beckett
Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett, edited by James and Elizabeth Knowlson is a compilation of reminiscences by and about…
Athenian freedom
In an essay on sacred law in ancient Athens (The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 67),…
Brotherly Love Came to Woodstock
Ang Lee’s 2009 film Taking Woodstock records an important milestone in the culture revolution of the 1960s, the…
Holding the Ropes
Before embarking on his missionary journey to India, William Carey famously told Andrew Fuller, “I will go…
Pope Francis and the Future of Charismatic Christianity
A recent meeting of ministers associated with the prosperity-preaching Word of Faith branch of charismatic Christianity received…
Confession and Curse in True Detective’s Episode Five
In the opening of True Detective’s fifth episode, a man named Dewall gets a read on Rust:…
First Links — 2.20.14
The Lives of the Saints Nicholas Kotar, Orthodox Arts Journal What’s the Matter with Belgium? Tracey Rowland,…
Sacred Violence
In a 2010 piece in Theology Today, Leslie Goode summarizes some of the challenges posed to post-Girardian…
Tertullian’s “Pacifism”
Oliver and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan pithily sum up Tertullian’s argument in De corona militis (From Irenaeus to Grotius,…
Welfare State and Civil Society: Must We Choose?
Barack Obama’s Roanoke speech is most famous for his “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build…
Moses the Tactician
Command, Clement of Alexandria wrote, involved “caution, risk taking, and the union of the two,” and these…
Hauerwas the Liberal
In his wise contribution to the Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, RR Reno concludes that Hauerwas’s theology is…
Triple Name
Jesus promises to make the victors in Philadelphia pillars in His temple, and to inscribe a triple…
Capitalist Legoland
Noah Kristula-Green responds to the politicization of the Lego Movie by, well, trying to score political points: “the…