First Links — 12.11.15

C. S. Lewis Was a Secret Government Agent
Harry Lee Poe, Christianity Today

Preserving the City of Tomorrow
Steven W. Semes, New Criterion

Movable Feasts:
A Farmer-Philosopher Confounds Expectations about Islam and Outsiders in the South

Staff, Economist

Father Mourad: Defeating ISIS Within a Cell of Prayer
Arthur Herlin, Aleteia

Grace Notes
Rowan Williams, Literary Review

Medication Nation
Philip Alcabes, American Scholar

Charlotte Brontë’s Most Inexplicable Denominational Burns
Mallory Ortberg, Toast

The Alarming Summons of Advent
Laura Trimble, Humane Pursuits

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