April 2012
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Briefly Noted
The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture by Gary Saul Morson Yale, 352 pages, $30 n…
Letters
Disorder & Diseased As Stanton Jones shows (“Same-Sex Science,” February), the position that “gay is good” is…
Evolution and Islam
Professor Steve Jones is having trouble with students cutting class. This isn’t something stellar professors like Jones,…
Bridging the Tiber
Unsurprisingly, when in November 2009 the Holy See announced the establishment of personal ordinariates (similar to dioceses)…
A Dream For Our Political Season
A former student recently asked me to recommend a classical text that he might read during the…
Against Erotic Entitlements
There is a general form of reasoning to which I shall give the name argumentum ad consummationem,…
Pornography and Acedia
A uniquely toxic combination of the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh has…
Man the Religious Animal
Are human beings naturally religious? Should we take religion to be in some way an innate, instinctive,…
The Divine Music of Mathematics
It is consoling to think that the emotions that music arouses in us have something to do…
Do Not Rashly Tear Asunder
The struggle for the soul of the United Methodist Church has reached a decisive point. At every…
Relativism’s Moral Mission
In The Brothers Karamazov , the rationalist and unbelieving Ivan is visited by the devil, who lays…
Graveside Praise
Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons ? by Lucy Bregman? Baylor, 263 pages, $24.95 n…
Bodily Revulsions
The Meaning of Disgust by Colin McGinn Oxford, 264 pages, $35 n The eminent philosopher Colin McGinn…
America’s Smiling God
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God ?by T. M. Luhrmann Knopf, 464…
On Two Moons and a Prayer
1Q84 by haruki murakami, translated by jay rubin and philip gabrielknopf, 944 pages, $30.50 Much to my…
The Sacrifices of War
War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity ? by Stanley Hauerwas Baker…
Insignia
A crimson surcoat aptly suits victorious kings. This royal victor, as a joke, is clothed by mocking…
Salting David Livingstone, 1873
He was, you know. Dried out and salted down By men who had carried his stuff all…
I Come to the Garden
I can name so few flowers. This is why I’m not a better poet. Shakespeare knew oxlip…
Accidents
On the verge of the unthinkable, the iceberg turns unsinkable to the hull. The buoying force of…
After the Mighty Gods Depart
They do not always hear our special plea, the lame gods”Deaf-In-One-Ear, Old Hobbled-Knee, that sooty lug the…
