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Lust Made Law
Dante is moving through the circle of the lustful (Comedy, Canto 5) and sees a host of…
Incontinence, Malice, Bestiality
Explaining the moral structure of hell in Canto 11 of Dante’s Comedy, Virgil lays out three general…
Infernal Baptism
Rodney Payton (Modern Reader’s Guide to Dante’s Inferno, 88–89) observes that “Dante’s vocabulary is rich in words…
Antidote to Sadness
Antonio of Venice is inexplicable sad. So is Portia of Belmont, her “little body . . .…
The Trap of Law
Marjorie Garber (Shakespeare After All, 300–2) nicely captures the Pauline resonances of the trial scene in Merchant…
2 + 2 = Apples
In a 1911 article on “The Ant Colony as Organism,” William Morton Wheeler argued that an ant…
Under Which Altar?
Ian Boxall gets a lot right in his commentary on Revelation 6:9–11 (in his excellent The Revelation…
Upcoming Events 10.21.2016
New York City “Music and Early Lutheranism”with David S. Yeago Immanuel Lutheran Church, 122 E. 88th StreetOctober…
Disenchanted Westworld
HBO’s new television series, Westworld, has generated enormous buzz since its premiere only two weeks ago. The…
Notes on Usury
Violent malice can be directed against God, the self, and the neighbor, Virgil tells Dante (Inferno 11)…
Warrior Bride
Chronicles envisions Israel as a “host” (tzaba). David leads Israel’s hosts. The princes of Israel military commanders.…
The Ties that Bind
Recently I attended my son’s installation ceremony as a member of the student government at his elementary…
The Gioia Effect
If you have attended many poetry readings, you know how often they turn out to be flat…
On Flying Together
My End of Protestantism (the book) deals with a number of the questions Doug Wilson raises in…
A Pope and a Psychiatrist on Transsexual Marriages
At the press conference on his return flight from Azerbaijan, Pope Francis spoke on, among other things,…
