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Jane Jacobs at 100
To celebrate the centenary of Jane Jacobs’s birth, Adam Gopnik devotes a New Yorker piece to the…
Rooting out Burrowers
Several weeks ago, I devoted my FT column to examining the Obama administration’s effort to consolidate its…
It’s the Theology, Stupid
Thomas Small doesn’t think Hugh Kennedy’s Caliphate gives enough attention to the theological roots of the Caliphate.…
Get Ready to Rumble
Early in his To Change the World, James Davison Hunter counters simplistic Christian understanding of cultural change…
Advertising and Alienation
Ray Oldenburg’s The Great Good Place is a brief for the “third place,” a place that is…
I Think I’m Not a Contra
When my grandparents enthusiastically voted for John F. Kennedy, reconciling Catholic life to the American mainstream seemed…
Remembering the Reformation but Celebrating What?
October is the month of the year in which, as a Reformation specialist, I find myself least…
Law in Flatland
Thomas Friedman announced over a decade ago that The World Is Flat. It’s gotten flatter since. Friedman…
Levitical Genealogy
The genealogy of the Levites (ch. 6) is at the center of the genealogical section of 1…
A Spectacle, Not a Debate
It wasn’t tedious, at least not in the way presidential debates usually are. Hillary Clinton recited scripted…
Christians, Stay Away from Irony Bros
If you were asked to describe Chapo Trap House by someone who knew nothing about it, you…
Covenant with Strangers
The Psalm recorded in 1 Chronicles 16 (Psalm 105) exhorts the singers to “remember forever His covenant,…
Upcoming Events 9.29.2016
SEPTEMBER The Gods of the City and the City of God: Augustine on PoliticsCorpus Christi Church, NYCThursday,…
Mouth and Heart
Romans 10:9–10 is arranged in a straightforward chiasm: A. If you confess with your mouth Jesus as…
Covetousness, Idolatry, and Neighborly Economics
Walter Brueggemann sums up the Bible’s perspective on Money and Possessions in six propositions: Money is a…
