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Salvation by Allegiance
Matthew Bates argues in Salvation by Allegiance Alone that “our contemporary Christian culture often comes prepackaged with…
Kings, Chronicles, Temple
After summarizing recent work on temple building in the Ancient Near East (1 & 2 Chronicles, 227–229),…
Just Globalization
In the blink of an eye, globalization has changed from the inevitable future and the panacea for…
Beyond Asking
Paul said that God gives us abundantly more than we can ask or imagine, according to the…
Send Your Children to Middlebury College
[This is not junk mail. Do not throw away. Important!] MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: Where Error Has No Rights!!!…
Christ in the Desert
On Saturday, I watched good friends carry a miniature white casket up the aisle of our parish…
Architectural Justice
James Jordan has often called attention to Ezekiel 43:10-11, where the Lord explains the purpose of the…
Protestantism and Nature
Lawrence Feingold doesn’t much like de Lubac’s work on the natural desire to see God. He doesn’t…
Odysseus and Dialectics of Environment
Near the beginning of their Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno “allegorize” on an episode…
Talking Trees
Trees are slow, like Ents. The electrical impulses that pass through trees travel at a rate of…
Indirect Subject
Slavoj Zizek (Mythology, Madness, and Laughter) explains Hegel’s sublation of Kantian transcendentalism by noting that Hegel accepts…
God the Temple
The Bible is a narrative of architecture and city planning. The Creator is a divine architect and…
The Weeping Animal
Despite efforts to show that animals cry, Robert Provine (Curious Behavior) argues that “dispassionate evaluation of evidence…
Goodness of Authority
Without authority, Yves Simon argues (A General Theory of Authority), our efforts at collective action would be…
Non-Americans in American Policy
Next door at First Things, James Rogers asks, “Does the welfare of non-Americans count in the creation…
