R.R. Reno on the First Things After Liberalism Seminar :
On February 27th and 28th some twenty scholars, as well as First Things editors and assorted auditors, met to discuss the question of whether liberalism has a futureand what comes after liberalism. Three essays served as foci for the seminar, and they will be featured in upcoming issues of First Things .
Also today, Terryl Givens on the heavenly logic of proxy baptism :
In 1823, Joseph Smith claimed a visitation from an angelic messenger, who called himself Moroni. He recited to Smith a number of scriptures, one of which bore rich fruit in the early years of Mormonism. The book of Malachi ends with a cryptic prophecy of Elijahs return to the earth, when he will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that [the Lord] will not come and strike the land with a curse.
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