First Links — 1.4.12

A Nation Addicted to Crisis
Zachary Karabell, The Atlantic

Shakers: The Elegant Errors of a Failed Sect
C. R. Wiley, Imaginative Conservative

Catholics and the Bourgeois Mind
Thomas Storck, Distributist Review

Piper Denounces Prosperity Gospel, Playful Worship in Last (Official) Sermon
Lillian Kwon, Christian Post

The Religious Makeup of the 113th Congress
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

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