First Links — 4.9.14

Topic: The New Calvinism
PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

The Quality of Mercy
Mark Osler, American Prospect

The New Anti-Intellectualism
Andrew Piper, Infernal Machine

Why the Book of Common Prayer Still Matters
Jordan Hylden, Christianity Today

Foundations Once Destroyed: Principle in Mansfield Park
Br. Aquinas Beale, O. P., Dominicana

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