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Briefly Noted
Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Powerby anna suharvard, 296 pages, $39.95 Anna Su’s study of U.S.…
The Remaking of Protestantism
The last time we saw such a massive shift in Protestantism was in the nineteenth and early…
The Hardest Mission of an Air Force Chaplain
If you’ve seen Saving Private Ryan, you probably recall the scene in which the commander and the…
The Internet Isn’t Broken
Last weekend, the New York Times business section had a profile of a technology figure that shows just how fundamentally…
Trump’s Simpson Strategy
Chris Cillizza suggests at CNN that The Simpsons can explain method behind Trump’s scandal du jour madness:…
Soul of Labor
To John Ruskin’s eye, the economists of his time (John Stuart Mill, e.g.) had a reductive understanding of human…
Worship in Matthew
The industrious John Paul Heil has produced another book, this on the Gospel of Matthew. The subtitle captures…
Naming the Beasts
Joseph Poon devotes a monograph, based on his PhD thesis, to identifying the land and sea beasts…
Chronicler’s Chiastic Solomon
In a 1981 article on “The Chronicler’s Solomon” in the Westminster Theological Journal (43:2), Ray Dillard lays out the following…
Perilous Partners
Reflecting on President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Ted Galen Carpenter (co-author of Perilous Partners) notes that “the Saudi regime…
What Is Policing For?
George Kelling’s and James Q. Wilson’s famous and influential “Broken Windows” article raises a question more relevant…
Postmodern Conservative
In one of the many obituaries for Peter Augustine Lawler, Yuval Levin reviews Lawler’s case for “postmodern…
Lord to Lord
Forty days after Jesus rose from the dead, He ascended into heaven to take His place at…
Wager
Raymond Barfield’s Wager is a lovely meditation on beauty, suffering, and the variety of philosophical “styles.” Everyone,…
Preparing A Place
In his Ascension Theology, Douglas Farrow insists that, if the ascension is bodily, and if Jesus ascends with all…
