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Opinion

Letters

Various

God’s Supersessionism David Novak (“Supersessionism Hard and Soft,” February) clearly demonstrates the negative consequences of the “hard”…

A Religion of Activism

Alexander Riley

In 2002, in these pages, Peter Berger, the late American socio­logist, offered a succinct summary of the…

Pelagius the Progressive

Charlotte Allen

The year 2018 marked the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the excommunication of one of Christianity’s most famous heretics:…

From Crete to Romania

Nicholas Denysenko

In Iași, Romania, in January 2019, some three hundred Orthodox scholars gathered for the inaugural conference of…

Violence and Politesse

Mark Bauerlein

Of all the places I’ve worked and played in my life, the politest one, the one where…

“Heaven and Everything Else”

Shalom Carmy

I first read Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man less than twenty years after…

Essays

Manufacturing Hate

R. R. Reno

Virginia governor Ralph Northam had a tough February. Soon after he made brutal remarks about the fate…

Mild and Equitable Establishments

Richard W. Garnett

Whitefish Mountain, a ski resort in northwest Montana, is known for its spicy terrain, rime-clothed “snow ghosts,”…

Pro-Life Liturgy

Carrie Frederick Frost

An icon of the Annunciation appears on the central altar doors of every Orthodox Christian church. The…

Big Julie

Joseph Epstein

James Boswell, who knew a thing or two about hero worship, called Julius Caesar “the greatest man…

Evangelicals and Zen Masters

Matthew Milliner

One evening in 1995, at an evangelical Bible study in New Jersey for twenty-­somethings, I learned that…

Reviews

A Certain Idea of France

Peter Hitchens

De Gaulleby julian jacksonharvard, 928 pages, $39.95 Using pick handles and rifle butts, the police force of…

Giving the Boot

Sohrab Ahmari

The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Rightby max bootliveright, 288 pages, $24.95 Not too long…

Allah’s Mercy and Wrath

Gabriel Said Reynolds

God in the Qur’anby jack miles knopf, 256 pages, $26.95 Jack Miles, a former Jesuit seminarian turned author…

His Excellency

Paul V. Mankowski

American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburghby wilson d. miscamble,…

Specter of the Beatitudes

Eve Tushnet

Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britainedited by michael rosenprinceton, 328 pages, $19.95…

Briefly Noted

Various

A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grailby charles a. coulombesaint benedict, 264 pages, $27.95 Despite its frequent…

Poetry

A Parting of Ways

Timothy Whitworth Smith

So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me.” Genesis 13:8 We are brothers.…

Mary of Bethany

Joseph Mirra

In Bethany, as Jesus dines with friends,And Martha sees to it that all are fed,Her sister to…

Why I Plant Redbuds

Duane K. Caylor

“If I knew that tomorrow was the end of the world, I would plant an apple tree…

Deus Absconditus (After Psalm 88)

Thomas H. Bast

When all is well it’s easy to confessYour goodness Lord, but when you disappearCapriciously ignoring our distressYou…