First Links — 9.13.12

Ending the Radicalization Spiral
H. A. Hellyer, Foreign Policy

Why E. Y. Mullins is Essential to Understanding Baptists
Trevin Wax, Kingdom People

I Don’t Need Anything I Think I Do
Drew Tatusko,  Emerging into Orthodoxy

Spinoza in Shtreimels
Carlos Fraenkel, Jewish Review of Books

In Defense of Nice Churches
Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic

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