First Links — 3.20.14

Christianity and Politics: A History
C. C. Pecknold, C-SPAN

Beware Responsible Discourse
Ari N. Schulman, New Atlantis

In Defense of the Megachurch
Jeremy Lott, American Spectator

The Orthodoxy I Know
Shimon Rosenberg, Aish

Dostoyevsky’s Pitch Letter for Crime and Punishment
American Reader

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