Welcome to a New Year, and a new semester for those of us still laboring among the books. Here’s what else happened on the site (and elsewhere) this week:

Conciliar Post:

MICAH MCMEANS: A TIMELY DANCE: STEPPING IN RHYTHM WITH CLARITY

CHRIS CASBERG: ON CHOOSING OUR STORIES

JOSEPH GREEN: A CONTEMPLATION OF MALE-TO-MALE RELATIONSHIPS

JOHN EHRETT: IMPERFECT GIFTS

JACOB PRAHLOW: OF TRIBALISM AND CHURCHES (PART TWO)

From Our Authors:

DREW MCINTYRE: A NEW KIND OF DEVOTIONAL READING

JACOB PRAHLOW: BOOK REVIEW: GUILT BY ASSOCIATION (SMITH)

Across the Web:

Katy Waldman: Palin’s Rhetoric Is an Enchanted, Perplexing Fever Dream and We Love It — Slate

Ryan Grim and Sam Stein: The GOP Establishment Has Found The One Thing That Can Make Donald Trump Palatable: Ted Cruz — Huffington Post

-Ben Winter

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