First Links — 7.24.14

Where’s God?
Edward Feser

George Whitefield at 300
Various, Credo

Are the Authoritarians Winning?
Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books

Fiction, Religion, and Reality
Jesse Baron & Christopher Beha, Harper’s

Why Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” Is No Fun
Lauren Squires, Language Log

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