First Links — 7.23.13

Modernity-Criticism and the Question of Violence
Brad Littlejohn, Political Theology

The Near-Irrefutability of Art
James Chastek, Just Thomism

No One Exempted from the Call to Conversion
Austen Ivereigh, ABC Religion & Ethics

Mary Ann Glendon and the Structure of Religious Freedom
Richard W. Garnett, Public Discourse

‘New Naturalism’ in an Era of Processed Relationships
Alexis C. Madrigal, Atlantic

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