First Links — 5.8.12

European Elections’ Real Winner: The Far Right
Peter Popham,  The Independent

Secularism, Creativity, and Art
Charles Murray,   New Criterion

Barack Obama & T. S. Eliot
Peter Lawler,  Big Think

Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Narrative Calvinism’
Rachel Stone,  Her.menutics

The Best Use of a Thurible?
Fr. Tim Finigan,  The Hermeneutic of Continuity

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