First Links — 7.28.14

Middle Earth Has Ruined Our Imagination
Josephine Livingstone, Prospect

On N. T. Wright’s 1658-page Book
Simon Gathercole, Reformation21

On the Book About My Father
L. Brent Bozell, American Spectator

At the Foot of the Cross with Thomas Hirshhorn and Matthias Grunewald
Scott Stephens, ABC Religion & Ethics

The Vanishing of Middle-Class Pastors
David R. Wheeler, The Atlantic

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

Lift My Chin, Lord 

Jennifer Reeser

Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…

Letters

Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…

Spring Twilight After Penance 

Sally Thomas

Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…