April 2017
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The Touchstone Effect
Everyone should have a copybook of maxims. So I tell my students at the start of freshman…
Duke Ellington’s Faith
I’m told that two different TV series are in development about jazz and prostitution in New Orleans.…
Polite Persecution
No American has suffered the fate of Helen Berhane, the Eritrean gospel singer whose evangelizing earned her…
Letters
Shame the Devil I was deeply perplexed by Patricia Snow’s “The Devil and Hilary Mantel” (February 2017).…
Getting Augustine Wrong
Injustices are done; imprudent, ill-considered policies are pursued. Brutal, cynical men posture as noble leaders. There’s a…
Zurück zur Form
( English Version | German Version ) Die Zeiten, in denen eine neue Form geboren wird, sind…
Return to Form
( English Version | German Version ) The times in which a new form is born are…
From a Vanished Library
The library in question is not the Great Library of Alexandria, but it is every bit as…
American Carnage
We should all be dead,” said Jonathan Goyer one bright morning in January as he looked across…
Moral Minority
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by rod dreher sentinel, 272 pages,…
The Dark Russian
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by douglas smith farrar, straus and giroux, 848…
Briefly Noted
The Contemplative Hunger by father donald haggerty ignatius, 259 pages, $17.95 Fr. Donald Haggerty’s first book, Contemplative…
Mullahs at the Movies
Iranian Cinema Uncensored: Contemporary Film-makers Since the Iranian Revolution by shiva rahbaran i. b. tauris, 336 pages,…
Champagne for All
A Scent of Champagne: 8,000 Champagnes Tasted and Ratedby richard juhlinskyhorse publishing, 400 pages, $95 Lord Keynes…
First Words
Why Only Us: Language and Evolutionby robert c. berwick and noam chomskymit press, 224 pages, $22.95 Perhaps…
Resurrection
I must believe that You rose from the deadFor if You didn’t, then what hope is thereTo…
Ascension Day: Facing East
“Between the essence and the descentFalls the shadow.”—T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men “. . . All…
XII. Jesus Dies on the Cross
His limbs splayed, writhing, as he hung there, Murmuring of a kingdom somewhere The Roman guards had…
