April 2019
Letters
God’s Supersessionism David Novak (“Supersessionism Hard and Soft,” February) clearly demonstrates the negative consequences of the “hard”…
A Religion of Activism
In 2002, in these pages, Peter Berger, the late American sociologist, offered a succinct summary of the…
Pelagius the Progressive
The year 2018 marked the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the excommunication of one of Christianity’s most famous heretics:…
From Crete to Romania
In Iași, Romania, in January 2019, some three hundred Orthodox scholars gathered for the inaugural conference of…
Violence and Politesse
Of all the places I’ve worked and played in my life, the politest one, the one where…
“Heaven and Everything Else”
I first read Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man less than twenty years after…
Manufacturing Hate
Virginia governor Ralph Northam had a tough February. Soon after he made brutal remarks about the fate…
Mild and Equitable Establishments
Whitefish Mountain, a ski resort in northwest Montana, is known for its spicy terrain, rime-clothed “snow ghosts,”…
Pro-Life Liturgy
An icon of the Annunciation appears on the central altar doors of every Orthodox Christian church. The…
Big Julie
James Boswell, who knew a thing or two about hero worship, called Julius Caesar “the greatest man…
Evangelicals and Zen Masters
One evening in 1995, at an evangelical Bible study in New Jersey for twenty-somethings, I learned that…
A Certain Idea of France
De Gaulleby julian jacksonharvard, 928 pages, $39.95 Using pick handles and rifle butts, the police force of…
Giving the Boot
The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Rightby max bootliveright, 288 pages, $24.95 Not too long…
Allah’s Mercy and Wrath
God in the Qur’anby jack miles knopf, 256 pages, $26.95 Jack Miles, a former Jesuit seminarian turned author…
His Excellency
American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburghby wilson d. miscamble,…
Specter of the Beatitudes
Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britainedited by michael rosenprinceton, 328 pages, $19.95…
Briefly Noted
A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grailby charles a. coulombesaint benedict, 264 pages, $27.95 Despite its frequent…
A Parting of Ways
So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me.” Genesis 13:8 We are brothers.…
Mary of Bethany
In Bethany, as Jesus dines with friends,And Martha sees to it that all are fed,Her sister to…
Why I Plant Redbuds
“If I knew that tomorrow was the end of the world, I would plant an apple tree…
Deus Absconditus (After Psalm 88)
When all is well it’s easy to confessYour goodness Lord, but when you disappearCapriciously ignoring our distressYou…