First Links — 9.30.15

Evangelism in the Early Church
Robert Wilken, Christian History

Back to Science Class for the Science Guy
Robert P. George & Patrick Lee, National Review

Finding Ourselves in Flannery’s Freaks
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Imaginative Conservative

Seven Books that should be Banned
Matthew Schmitz, Acculturated

Miraculous Occurrences During Pope Francis’s Visit to New York
Luke Burns, New Yorker

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