First Links — 4.19.13

Welcoming Muslims in Ireland
Megan O’Neil, Atlantic

To Mary Neylan (April 18, 1940)
C. S. Lewis, American Reader

The Limits of Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance”
Richard Reinsch, Library of Law & Liberty

Why Did Some German Protestants Support Hitler?
Matthew Tuininga, Patheos Evangelical

Scientology: The Story
Diane Johnson, New York Review of Books

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