First Thoughts

All the dating terms you didn’t know but were afraid to ask about

Devil’s Dictionary of Dating Continue Reading »

How Many Books Does the Bible Contain?

Adam Greene’s Bibliotheca project presents the Bible in multiple codices. It’s an elegant effort, but it’s not what the early Church eventually came to endorse. Continue Reading »

Cleaning Up the Bible

When you consider how thrilling and deeply moving the Bible really is, it is almost an accomplishment to make it as boring as modern editions do. Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.25.14

A “Tax” in Iraq
Terry Mattingly, GetReligion

Books Are Alive
Ned Resnikoff, The Baffler

Welcome to New Urbs
Jonathan Coppage, The American Conservative

End of the Empire
Clement Dickie, O.P., Dominicana

How We Covered World War I
The Editors, America

We Need Freaks

When Flannery O’Connor called the south Christ-haunted, she was thinking not least of its freaks. The role of the freak takes on a theological tone in grotesque southern fiction because “it is when the freak can be sensed as a figure for our essential displacement that he attains some . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.24.14

Where’s God?
Edward Feser

George Whitefield at 300
Various, Credo

Are the Authoritarians Winning?
Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books

Fiction, Religion, and Reality
Jesse Baron & Christopher Beha, Harper’s

Why Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” Is No Fun
Lauren Squires, Language Log

First Links — 7.23.14

Righteous Minds and Religious Liberty
David Zahl, Mockingbird

Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
William Deresiewicz, New Republic

Our Duty to Iraq’s Christians
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week

The Geography of Melancholy
Tara Isabella Burton, American Reader

Have the Principles of the Right Been Discredited?
G. Sanchez, The Josias

Can Gay Love Really Be Straight?

A reply to Mark Joseph Stern Continue Reading »

First Links — 7.22.14

Saving Normal in a World Gone Mad
Helene Guldberg, Spiked

On “Courage” in the Christian Academy
James K. A. Smith, Fors Clavigera

Creating Intentional Community: A Panel
Will Seath & Chris Currie, Fare Forward

Fantasy and the Buffered Self
Alan Jacobs, New Atlantis

Fighting for the Right to Heidegger
Michael Marder, The Stone

“N” is for Solidarity

Standing with Nazarenes in Iraq Continue Reading »