First Links — 11.14.13

Last Meals
Brent Cunningham, Lapham’s Quarterly

The Local, Universal Master
Ingrid D. Rowland, New York Review of Books

The Last Jew in Afghanistan
Jessica Donati & Mirwais Harooni, Reuters

The Boring Word in Theology
Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed

Jesuits, Dominicans, and the Reformation
Br. Bonaventure Chapman, O.P., Dominicana

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