Serious religious adherents know their faith’s effect on economic activity extends far beyond how behaviors like fasting diminish productivity or praying steal from time spent at work. Continue Reading »
Middle Earth Has Ruined Our Imagination
Josephine Livingstone, Prospect
On N. T. Wright’s 1658-page Book
Simon Gathercole, Reformation21
On the Book About My Father
L. Brent Bozell, American Spectator
At the Foot of the Cross with Thomas Hirshhorn and Matthias Grunewald
Scott Stephens, ABC Religion & Ethics
The Vanishing of Middle-Class Pastors
David R. Wheeler, The Atlantic
From Super to Nuts
James Bowman, Arma Virumque
Is Competent Authoritarianism Too Much to Ask For?
John Michael McGrath, Hazlitt
Cohabitation: Moving In and Moving On
Scott Stanley, Family Studies
Against Cardinal Kasper
Ross Douthat, Evaluations
Dylan Thomas, the Anti-Eliot
Bevis Hillier, Weekly Standard
Devil’s Dictionary of Dating Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »
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
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 »
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
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
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