First Links — 3.19.12

Rowan Williams: A Good Man, An Impossible Task
The Guardian

The Battle for Britain’s Soul Begins
Cole Morton, The Telegraph

Ernest Shackleton’s Lenten Lessons
Justin Bell , National Catholic Register

Whit Stillman and the Song of the Preppy
Chip Brown,   New York Times

Transcendence and the Meaning of Politics
Brian Jones, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

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