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December 2018

December 09, 2018

The Best Books I Read This Year (2018 Edition)

My reading goal this year was 250 books—and happily, it’s looking like I’ll finish up...

December 06, 2018

“Suspiria” and the Hidden Sacred

Let’s get one thing clear from the start: the new Suspiria is a strange, horrible,...

October 2018

October 10, 2018

Against the “Hermeneutic of Harm”

I’ve written in the past about the fascinating rise of “exvangelical” or Christian culture—created largely...

September 2018

September 14, 2018

“Nun” Dare Call It Religious?

A few days ago, I wrote for Conciliar Post about the natural law themes that...

September 05, 2018

The Long Theological Shadow

You’d be forgiven for thinking that many American churches these days are desperately trying to...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

The Strange Allure of Twitch.tv

There’s been plenty of commentary written about how Americans are lonely—how so many of us...

August 03, 2018

Starting a Secret Fire: A Review of Jonathan McIntosh’s “The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie”

Few writers are more beloved—especially in Christian circles—than J. R. R. Tolkien, the British philologist...

July 2018

July 04, 2018

More Thoughts on Neo-Integralism: A Critical Review of Andrew Willard Jones’s “Before Church and State”

Since I last wrote on this subject, my post discussing neo-integralism got some pushback from...

June 2018

June 06, 2018

Jedi Protestantism: How to Fix the “Star Wars” Saga

Last weekend, I watched “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” for the third time. As I...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

A Big Win for Religious Liberty in Canada

I’ve written here before about the unavoidable tension between conceptions of “universal human rights” and...

May 23, 2018

The Coming Neo-Integralism

In the minds of a growing number of socially conservative intellectuals, classical liberalism—and, for that...

May 16, 2018

Moloch in the Dock

For the last couple of weeks, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this...

May 09, 2018

“Ready Player One” and the Triumph of Anti-Culture

Leftists and conservatives have used the term “anti-culture” to mean two very different things. On...

May 02, 2018

Pope Francis, Nondenominationalist?

Over at Conciliar Post, Jacob Prahlow has an article suggesting that the emergence of nondenominational...

May 02, 2018

An Introduction

The name of this blog—Between Two Kingdoms—is a reference to the Lutheran “doctrine of two...