September 2006
The Code Breakers
A few years ago, I wrote an essay in praise of the Harry Potter books that yielded…
Southern Baptists After the Revolution
All ecclesiastical revolutions eventually run out of steam. New concerns emerge, and different leaders come to the…
Behind the Veil
The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi University of Minnesota Press, 229 pages, $20 Journey of…
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews edited by jonathan cottwenner, 464 pages, $23.95 No matter how many albums…
For the Secular
Christianity and the Secular by Robert A. Markus. University of Notre Dame Press, 99 pages, $15. In…
Life Unworthy of Life
A Concise History of Euthanasia by Ian Dowbiggin. Rowan and Littlefield, 176 pages, $22.95 To read Ian…
Briefly Noted 85
A Little History of the World. by E.H. Gombrich. Yale Univ. Press, 284 pages, $25. In 1935,…
Poetry
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
O love, you living flame who wound with tender fire my very soul, down to its depths…