First Links — 11.25.13

Church History, Not Parochial
Mark Noll, Books & Culture

America’s Best-Paid Fairy Tale Writer
John Gray, New Republic

‘Now and Then I Feel It’s Working’
J. Peter Nixon, Commonweal

Whither Oliver O’Donovan?
James K. A. Smith, Scribd

You Know What’s Funny? Catholicism
Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post

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