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Opinion

Correspondence

Various

The Code Breakers

Alan Jacobs

A few years ago, I wrote an essay in praise of the Harry Potter books that yielded…

Southern Baptists After the Revolution

Timothy George

All ecclesiastical revolutions eventually run out of steam. New concerns emerge, and different leaders come to the…

Reviews

Behind the Veil

Lauren Weiner

The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi University of Minnesota Press, 229 pages, $20 Journey of…

It Ain’t Me, Babe

Stephen H. Webb

Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews edited by jonathan cottwenner, 464 pages, $23.95 No matter how many albums…

For the Secular

Thomas G. Guarino

Christianity and the Secular by Robert A. Markus. University of Notre Dame Press, 99 pages, $15. In…

Life Unworthy of Life

Wesley J. Smith

A Concise History of Euthanasia by Ian Dowbiggin. Rowan and Littlefield, 176 pages, $22.95 To read Ian…

Briefly Noted 85

Various

A Little History of the World. by E.H. Gombrich. Yale Univ. Press, 284 pages, $25. In 1935,…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

Nothing New Prophets foretell And priests atone And where men dwell Their works are known How good…

Songs of the Soul in Intimate Amorous Communion with God

St. John of the Cross Rhina P. Espaillat

O love, you living flame who wound with tender fire my very soul, down to its depths…