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Iustus et Peccator?
From Conflict to Communion, the Lutheran-Catholic commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, offers a summary…
First Things Junior Fellows Program 2017
Graduating college seniors and recent graduates are invited to apply for the First Things junior fellows program.…
David’s Ammonite War
1 Chronicles 18–20 record David’s wars with immediate neighbors of Israel. The chapters are organized chiastically: A.…
President Trump, Therapist in Chief?
One of the mysteries surrounding the upcoming presidential inauguration is that of why the various celebrities who…
The Geography of David’s Conquest
1 Chronicles 18–20 brings together David’s conquests into a neatly packaged unit. (In Samuel, the same wars…
Careening Toward Division
As recounted in From Conflict to Communion, jointly produced by the Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical…
A Note of Thanks
Dear Readers, Thank you for being a part of our fall 2016 fundraising campaign! I’m delighted to…
“No Core Identity”?
I am no fan of nationalism. Given what my paternal relatives experienced as refugees in their own…
Is Language a Tool?
Daniel Everett thinks language is a tool, and has written a book about it: Language: The Cultural…
Political Animals
I heard about about Bernie Sanders’s November stop in Boston from my conservative friends. Asked by a…
Christmas Day, 2016
New York, the home of those who wander farFrom home, fleeing charming ghosts, or else inSearch of…
The Iago Problem
Reflecting on Daniel Craig’s recent performance as Iago, Tamsin Shaw puzzles over the “Iago problem” in a…
Accidental Empire
In a TLS retrospective on Kipling, Michael Holroyd notes the obvious: “By the time he won the…
Shakespeare’s Oaths
In her TLS review of John Kerrigan’s Shakespeare’s Binding Language, Emma Smith calls attention to the liturgical…
Beware the Smuggler
A delicious 1964 poem from Norman MacCaig (Poems of Norman MacCaig, 165), entitled “The Smuggler”: Watch him…
