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Modernist Puritanism
In his 1971 study of Modernist architecture, The Golden City, Henry Hope Reed observed that Modernists transferred…
Happy Gothic
What is “the Gothic”? Answers vary, and that is, Catherine Spooner argues (in Post-Millennial Gothic), because Gothic…
House of Rest
David assembles the leaders of Israel for Solomon’s coronation (1 Chronicles 28–29; cf. 29:22), and, even more…
Taking Ceremonies Seriously
Popular cliche is that Lutherans and Anglicans are high-church, Reformed lower. Lutherans and Anglicans are sacramentally-minded, Reformed…
Preject, Subject, Traject, Object
In a fascinating article on “the structure of significant lives,” Norman Fiering summarizes Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s description of…
Chosen Son, Choosing Father
At the end of 1 Chronicles, David delivers a series of speeches to the qahal (assembly) of…
Bowling Leagues and Community
According to John Milbank (“Politics of time”), “libertarianism insists that the future lies with the isolated ‘reflective’…
Fishing for Koi with an Afghan Veteran
Throwing my bags into the car, I waved my wife and children a hasty goodbye and then…
Leviticus Is My Life
My youngest son, Smith, is reading through the Bible this year. He’s getting bogged down in Leviticus.…
What We’ve Been Reading—3.3.17
Alexi Sargeant For Lent this year, I’m reading a heretic, as David Mills suggests (his title is…
Evangelical Alternative Medicine
Candy Gunther Brown’s The Healing Gods is an effort to explain how Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)…
Spiritual Healing
In her editor’s introduction to Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, Candy Gunther Brown observes: “According to the…
Tolerant Calvinism
In an essay on the Brandenburg Calvinist pastor John Bergius, Bodo Nischan observes that “Unlike most Protestants…
What Might Have Been
Robert Carle suggests that “sensible refugee policy will balance two competing realities: first, it is a moral…
Sub Species Aeternitatis
John Milbank writes, “Since life passes and is only mediated through memory and desire, every concrete instance…