Authors

First Links — 3.6.15

From First Thoughts

Why We Confess: From Augustine to Oprah
Elizabeth Stoker Bruening, The Hedgehog Review

Lincoln's 700 Words of Biblical Meditation
Daniel Dreisbach, Library of Law and Liberty

A Kiss
David Tomas Martinez, Poets.org

6 Mar 2015

First Links — 3.5.15

From First Thoughts

This is Russia
Brian Doyle, The American Scholar

2,500 Years of Gyms
Mark Mason, The Spectator

Song of Weights and Measurements
Martha Silano, The Poetry Foundation

5 Mar 2015

First Links — 3.4.15

From First Thoughts

Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts
Justin McBrayer, The New York Times

Music to Shoot You By
Ted Gioia, The Daily Beast

Elegiac
Elisabeth Murawski, Poetry Daily

4 Mar 2015

First Links—3.3.15

From First Thoughts

What Notre Dame Does Better Than Yale
Margaret Blume, Ethika Politika

Problematic
Matthew Schmitz, The Hedgehog Review

The Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Memory
Image Journal

3 Mar 2015

First Links — 3.2.15

From First Thoughts

‘An Incorrigibly and Confusedly Religious Nation'
Randy Boyagoda, The Wall Street Journal

The Virtues of Lent
Br. Joachim Kenney, O.P., Dominicana

The Religious States of America, in 22 Maps
Niraj Chokshi, The Washington Post

The Aesthetes: When Kitsch Was Avant-Garde
Jacob Willer, Standpoint

2 Mar 2015

I’m reading a lovely novel by Rumer Godden called “In This House of Brede.” It’s very British, written in quietly intelligent prose. Godden respectfully narrates the inner-workings of a Benedictine abbey—the nuns’ working out their salvation together, emotion, temptation, mystery, and all. Continue Reading »

26 Feb 2015