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March 2014

March 11, 2014

Jesus of Nazareth: A Savior with a Hometown

Seamus Heaney. Wendell Berry. William Wordsworth. Robert Frost. In my childhood exploration of words...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Short-term Missions, Long-term Places

The Gospel Coalition recently posted an article by Darren Carlson entitled “Why You Should Consider...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

What Do We Do When We Run Out of Empathy?

In a recent New Yorker article “The Case Against Empathy,” Paul Bloom warns us against...

May 08, 2013

The Real Case Against the Suburbs, or, How Ought Christians to Think About the Common Good?

Over at Mere O, Keith Miller has been kind enough to respond to a piece...

May 03, 2013

Should We Buy Houses?

At the end of yesterday's post, the editors called for a renewed attempt to distinguish...

May 02, 2013

The “New Legalism” Gets Some Things Right

On the Acton Blog, Anthony Bradley argues that "radical" or "missional" Christianity, of the kind...

May 01, 2013

The Possibility of Intellectual Localism

The contemporary localist movement is generating a lot of interest around the conviction that people...

March 2013

March 23, 2013

Introducing the Sacrallennials

Over at Juicy Ecumenism, guest poster Thomas Holgrave (of the worth-checking-out blog The Hipster...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

The Exact Place We Need to Be

In a recent response to a David Brooks column, Rod Dreher wrote that “People today feel...