How Evangelical Christians Do Money: On Tithing
Ester Bloom, The Billfold
Holy Relics: A Brand Parody T-Shirt
Martyn Wendell Jones, Christ & Pop Culture
I See Dead People
Alizah Salario, Avidly
Sexual Abuse, Security, and the Seal of Confession
Sarah, A Queer Calling
Ramadan 2014 – Spiritual Renewal after Loss
Alan Howard, altmuslim
Quitting the Cancer Battle
D. G. Myers, Good Letters
Know Nothing
Michael Robbins, Slate
Beyond Belief: A Journey to Antarctica
Chris Jones, Afar
Better to Marry Than to Burn
Traci Brimhall, Poetry Magazine
Farming the Apocalypse
Keith Ferrell, Aeon
Most of my arguments with defenders of the legalization same-sex marriages have been friendly ones. I have some strong views on the subject, based on my adherence to what I believe is the Bible’s teachings on the subject. But I also care deeply about preserving a pluralistic social order, where individuals and groups have the opportunity to live out their deepest convictions—however disagreeable to people like me—within a framework of a shared commitment to the common good. So, many of my arguments on this particular subject have been efforts on my part to get clear about what the expansion of the concept of marriage to include same-sex unions will mean for the social fabric. Continue Reading »
The first century orator Dio Chrysostom narrates a conversation between the famous Cynic Diogenes and a pilgrim on his way to visit the oracle at Delphi. Delayed in his journey because of a runaway slave, the pilgrim runs into Diogenes who then engages him in a lengthy discussion that focuses on the . . . . Continue Reading »
For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story
Taylor Swift, Wall Street Journal
The Worst Tree in the World
Casey N. Cep, PSMag
Enon Chapel: London’s Victorian Golgotha
Carla Valentine, Order of the Good Death
Kant Confusion
Michael Rosen, TLS
Why We Still Need “The Feminine Mystique”
Katelyn Beaty, Books & Culture
The dissenting judge’s opinion suggests a bias against Catholicism unlike anything I can remember in a judicial opinion. Continue Reading »
In the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision, argument on the issue has raged with heightened vehemence. Buzzwords abound in the debate—equality, imposition, right, discrimination—and the equivocation at work makes the fallout increasingly polemical. One term that has shared in the general collapse of meaning is “freedom” or “liberty.” Continue Reading »
The Right to Be Wrong
Ryan T. Anderson, Public Discourse
Ground Down to Molasses
Dave Byrne, Boston Review
Odysseus: Patron Hero of the Liberal Arts
Eva Brann, The Imaginative Conservative
Generations and Repetitions
Joshua Clover, The Nation
The Conservative Case for Unions After the Harris v. Quinn Decision
James Poulos, The Daily Beast
A confluence is occurring in Christian higher education in the U.S., with new leaders at strategic urban institution, just in time for new opportunities to be pursued.
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Justice Sotomayor could simply have discussed the high standard for a temporary injunction and left it there; that would have made for a much stronger opinion. As it is, her dissent suggests a level of frustration that the Court’s ruling really doesn’t merit.
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