– The new(ish) blog Women in Theology has been quite active lately, with recent posts on John Milbank and Stanley Hauerwas garnering a lot of discussion.

– Scu at Critical Animal writes on books that have changed the way he thinks. And here’s the post that inspired his post.

– Jeremy recently had a good post on what it means when you pray for healing that doesn’t happen. And here’s the post that inspired his post.

– Russell points to this interesting post from Peter Levine, offering a “civic republican” quasi-defense of President Obama’s approach to politics. Russell follows up with some thoughts of his own on localism and communitarianism.

– A post on Lutherans and the “new perspective” on Paul.

– Nick Kristof: in comparing the U.S. to banana republics, I may have been unfair…to banana republics.

– Post-marriage America?

– Gateways to Geekery: The DC animated universe (I loved the ’90s Batman cartoons).