First Links — 3.4.16

What Wouldn’t Jesus Do?
Peter Wehner, New York Times

Character, Flourishing, and the Good Life
David Brooks and Miroslav Volf, Yale Center for Faith and Culture

A Paleocon, an Otherkin, and a Saint Walk Into a Bar
Kate Havard, Washington Free Beacon

The Lost Hope of Self-Help
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Aeon

Out in the Fields with God
Eve Tushnet, American Conservative

Academic Freedom in Conformist Times
Roger Scruton, Spiked

Embracing Our Pagan Heritage
Chase Padusniak, Patheos

No Longer Calm, But Alive: Robert Royal’s Catholic Humanism
R. J. Snell, Public Discourse

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