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booksandculture

  1. Brett Foster reviews Written on the Heart (a play centering on Bible translation & the English Reformation): ow.ly/bilkj
  2. @petermanseau Flavored w/ sour grapes?
  3. Suppose that instead of being near the end of human history . . . we are closer to the beginning? ow.ly/bf4pM
  4. A theology for the Long Now? ow.ly/bf4pM
  5. Stan Guthrie & John Wilson talk about forthcoming books (geology & Noah's flood; sin; women readers): ow.ly/bdwJL
  6. Joel Carpenter on The Reformed Journal: ow.ly/b7DPe
  7. Oh yeah? @FrankViola "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." ~ Francis Bacon
  8. @millinerd "Constant"? Or every five seconds? Or . . . ? And the last thing we need is a "theory" of modernity. Already too many of those.
  9. Alissa Wilkinson: Science in a future without religion: ow.ly/b65iN
  10. Yes! @TPCarney @ModeledBehavior Great essay RT @ModeledBehavior: Douthat on Karl's "terrifying" perspective douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/wha…