First Links — 8.19.13

There’s Life in Those Bones
Jason Byasee, Books & Culture

Russell Moore: From Moral Majority to ‘Prophetic Minority’
Naomi Schaefer Riley, Wall Street Journal

You Only Live Twice
Michel Gurfinkiel, Mosaic

Responsible Prison Reform
Eli Lehrer, National Affairs

The Church is a Bride, Not a Widow
Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

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