First Links — 7.22.14
by Matthew CantirinoSaving 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
Dissent and Mormon Mission
by Gregory Pine, O.P.A policy of strict confessional delimitation contributes to a vibrant missionary impetus. Continue Reading »
First Links — 7.21.14
by Matthew CantirinoStratford Caldecott’s Conversion Story
Dwight Longenecker, Standing on My Head
The Reformicons: A Discussion
William A. Galston, Henry Olsen, Ramesh Ponnuru, et. al., Brookings
How Theology Departments Diminished Themselves into Irrelevance
Randall B. Smith, Crisis
The Mexican Plaza and the Transformation of Culture
Jose Bernardi, Marginalia
When Science Was Populist
Jonathan Rose, Literary Review
First Links — 7.18.14
by B. D. McClay How I Became a Knausgaard Truther
Casey N. Cep, Pacific Standard
Mommy Police With Real Handcuffs
Megan McArdle, BloombergView
On the (Very Smelly) Trail of the Skunk Takeover
Christopher Kemp, Outside
Junglecare
Dave Seminara, The Morning News
Did Teilhard de Chardin Ever Ask the Beasts?
Matt Mazewski, Reasonably Moderate
Divorce and Remarriage
by R. R. RenoNova et Vetera has published a detailed analysis of proposals to revise Catholic Pastoral practice for the divorced and remarried.Cardinal Kasper has floated the idea of shifting from canonical adjudication of annulments to a more open-ended process of pastoral discernment that will allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion under certain circumstances. Continue Reading »
Lutherans Left out in the Cold
by Mathew Block The North American Lutheran Church’s (NALC) application to join the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has not been approved. But did the LWF follow its own rules?
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Divine Hiddenness and Human Disclosure
by Gregory Pine, O.P.A popular argument against the existence of God is what some call divine hiddenness: “If God exists, why doesn’t he make his existence more obvious, such that it could not be doubted?” But what atheists take to be a strike against God may prove just the opposite, and in fact the very pattern of human flourishing. Continue Reading »
In Defense of Christian Perfectionism
by Dale M. CoulterMark Tooley of the Institute on Religion & Democracy has responded to my take on the rise of Protestant perfectionism in the past several decades with a plea for help from Reformed Christians. I appreciate the response in part because I think it illustrates the challenge for Wesleyans to clarify . . . . Continue Reading »
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