First Links — 11.1.12

Colm Toibin: You Have to Be Terrible to Write . . .
Nigel Farndale, Telegraph

Communing with Saints
Molly T. Marshall, Associated Baptist Press

Archdiocese of Boston: Resurrection
Patrick Doyle, Boston Magazine

How Europe Was Crushed
John Connelly, Washington Post

When Smart Theologians Endorse Dumb Hermeneutics
Joe Carter, Joe Carter’s Commonplace

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