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The Ludwig von Mises institute has made several of the works of the great anarchist writer Albert Jay Nock available on line (via Tory Anarchist). These are mostly out of print and hard to find works, so it’s quite a resource. Nock’s Our Enemy, the State is a classic and, while Nock was considered a Read more
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Brandon is hosting the second “Carnival of the Citizens,” focusing on “Justice, War, and the Quest for Peace.” Lots of interesting-looking posts (most of which I haven’t had time to read yet). Read more
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Author Kritzer, a Jewish convert to Christianity by the sound of it, writes on contrasting Jewish and Christian attitudes toward giving to the poor. Read more
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Andrew Linzey has a nice piece in the London Times. Nothing really new if you’ve read any of his books, but a good concise case for an “animal inclusive” Christianity. (via Thinking Anglicans) I’m intrigued by the idea that the scope of Christ’s redemptive life and death extends to all creation and not just human Read more
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The Christian Century reviews two recent books by that one-man publishing house N.T. Wright. Our parish curate warmly recommended Simply Christian, the Mere Christianity of the 21st century if reports are to be believed. Of course, Wright and Lewis are very different thinkers speaking to very different audiences. The reviewer, Samuel Wells, writes: I’m generally Read more
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Check out Chris‘s series on the theology of Johnny Cash in three parts (1,2,3). Proving that you can’t escape your Lutheran roots he uses a nice law/gospel dialectic. Someday I’ll write my series on the theology of Jerry Reed. Hound dogs and fishing will loom large in the system. Read more
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Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, is interviewed in the LA Times on what it means to be an evangelical. Nothing really new there, but he does highlight a kind of “broad tent” evangelicalism that seems to be gaining more notice. I read Mouw’s Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport and He Shines in Read more
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This post at the anabaptist blog Levellers does a good job encapsulating where I tend to differ from contemporary American conservatism. I had wanted to write a post for a while about the different meanings given to “limited government” by people whose primary concerns are, say, concentrated executive power versus those who are most worried Read more
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Speaking of the blessings of a consumer society, Virginia Postrel, who is basically the anti-Crunchy Con, has an article in defense of chain stores (link will decay). As someone who grew up in a small town, I have come to appreciate chain stores. The much ballyhooed “mom and pop” stores in my home town were Read more
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Thomas at Without Authority writes on death and whether we should consider it natural and/or evil in itself. I think he’s on the right track there (and I’m not just saying that because he had nice things to say about a few of my posts). I’m intrigued by his last paragraph where he says: So, Read more
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