First Links — 6.13.13

Idealism and Blindness
Leon Wieseltier,  New Republic

The Great Migration of the Church in This Land
Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Happy Birthday, Charles Kingsley
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, OUP Blog

Our Francis, Too
Timothy George, Christianity Today

Easter in a Soviet Camp
Archimandrite Nektarios Antonopoulos, Mystagogy

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist

Peter J. Leithart

It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…

The Possibility of Possibility

Midge Goldberg

"Might could” is a Southern expression meaning “maybe I could” or “I might be able to,” conveying…

The False Promise of No Contact

Noelle Mering

Around the time nineteen-year-old Alice began cutting ties with her family, she announced on social media that…