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Spooking Putin
Putin is watching Ukraine carefully, writes Julia Ioffe, because he knows that what happens in Kiev could be…
The Bible’s Vantage Point
Brian Zahnd confesses to having had a problem with the Bible. He hasn’t been reading it from…
Of Consciences and Cakes
Political columnist Kirsten Powers has earned the respect of the Evangelical community. The story of her conversion…
Professor Kaveny Goes on the Attack
Over at the liberal Catholic Commonweal blog, Cathleen Kaveny, who once labeled me and her then-Notre Dame…
They Will Take Up Serpents
On Saturday, Jamie Coots, a famous snake-handling preacher died in the predictable fashion. My lifestyle and worldview are…
First Links — 2.19.14
Letter: George Bernard Shaw to H. G. Wells American Reader Is Jewish Marriage Unique? Sherif Girgis, Mosaic …
On Eagles’ Wings
Yahweh brought Israel out of Egypt “on eagles’ wings” (Exodus 19:4). John A. Davies argues (A Royal…
Like Adam
Hosea 6:7 has been a Reformed proof text of an Adamic covenant: They broke covenant like Adam.…
Faith, Not Sight
Faith is the discernment of things unseen. Faith looks for a city yet to come, not made…
De-Priesting, Re-Priesting
When Aaron and his sons were ordained, they were washed, vested, and anointed (Leviticus 8:6-9). When Aaron…
Beyond the Papal States
When the Holy See signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990, a…
Expulsion and Sacrifice
Finlan (Paul’s Cultic Atonement Metaphors) wants to distinguish sharply between sacrifice and the removal ritual of the…
Care and sacrifice
Finlan doesn’t think there’s any idea of substitution in the sacrificial rites, though there is in the…
Playing by the Rules
Dorothy Sayers once said that the incarnation and atonement prove that, whatever God may be up to…
Standing with Martin Luther
On this day in 1546, Martin Luther fell asleep in the Lord. Lutherans therefore recognize him this…
