First Links — 4.5.13

Dominic Gondreau’s Special Vocation
Paul Gondreau, Huffington Post

There Will Likely Be No Methodist Schism
Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism

Who Was Athanasius Kircher?
Paula Findlen, The Nation

Being Gay at Falwell’s University
Brandon Ambrosino, Atlantic

Karl Barth and Three Forms of Atheism
W. Travis McMaken, Die Evangelischen Theologen

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