David A. Garner

The Briefing 5.15.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Can we learn something about Christianity from Karl Marx? It occurs to me that this observation contains a timely insight which, properly applied, would allow us to disentangle the web […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 5.8.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Where can we find God in the wake of the Nepal earthquake? While I empathize with Tony’s revulsion at those who preach a God whose morality bears no resemblance to […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 5.1.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Tah-Nehisi Coates reflects on the role of nonviolence in Baltimore When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 4.24.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Is feminism heresy? Leithart offers no definition of how he uses the word “feminism” and he doesn’t even offer any clues to help us. There is no accounting for the […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 4.17.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. An illustrated guide to Don Draper’s romantic liasons: “I really wanted to see exactly how promiscuous Don was. I figured it’d be interesting to see how the ladies would look as […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 4.10.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Holy Week and the art of loosing: Each Maundy Thursday, the members of our church’s altar guild carefully and lovingly remove the candelabra, cross, vessels, fine linens and paraments from […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 4.3.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye the past two weeks. Oliver O’Donovan’s meditations on Holy Week: This week, I have been laying the story of Jesus’s passion alongside the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. Each […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 3.20.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. CNN tells the scandalous story of D.E. Paulk and his family: The boy was watching people sing at a sweaty Pentecostal tent service one Sunday morning when a prophet onstage scanned […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 3.13.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. A pocket bible lost during World War II has now made it home to its rightful owner: It was a special delivery more than 70 years in the making — […]