September 2015
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Christian Duty in Ukraine
Although many Christians have suffered and even died in Ukraine, churches across the globe keep silent about…
Roland on Vaikuntha
At first there was only the vigorous snuffling sound of an inquisitive snout near my brow, then…
Unconstitutional Catholics
In late January, the Supreme Court granted review in Glossip v. Gross, a case involving a constitutional…
Letters
DEFENDING ORTHODOXY Mykhailo Cherenkov’s pain and anger are deeply personal (“Orthodox Terrorism,” May). Anti-Ukrainian separatists have occupied…
Facing the Unborn
An ultrasound video of an unborn child sucking its thumb makes a case against abortion that reason…
Write Away
The most electrifying reading experience I’ve had this past year came 656 pages into Donna Tartt’s recent…
Technocracy Now
The recently revised New York City Health Department form for parents requesting birth certificates asks the “woman…
In Polls We Trust
One of the many claims of today’s polling industry is that it is the source of credible…
Our Need for Privacy
The new game Cards Against Humanity advertises itself as “a party game for horrible people—despicable and awkward…
Thy Will Be Done
I‘m writing in late June. The Supreme Court has yet to release its decision about same-sex marriage.…
Scops and Skalds
Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England by emily thornbury cambridge, 338 pages, $99 My years of mandatory…
Briefly Noted
Boswell’s Enlightenment by robert zaretsky harvard, 288 pages, $26.95 When James Boswell met Voltaire, he was not…
Baptist Catholics
Contesting Catholicity: Theology for Other Baptists by curtis w. freeman baylor, 478 pages, $49.95 When I’m in…
Going South
From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story by mark a. noll…
Kids Today
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by meghan daum…
Walzer’s Paradox
The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions by michael walzer yale, 192 pages, $26 Michael…
Lower Higher Ed
Here God gums up in the mouth, won’t spit itself out with every easy expletive, leaving the…
The Calling
You will see again through the prism’s rainbow through the lighting sky in horizon’s turning rising, rising,…
Pantoum for East Fifty-First
And then, in an instant, it’s gone: the world of East Fifty-First.Gone the round-the-clock clack of the…
Elegy for a Horseshoe Crab
Here on the sand lies crusty limulus, the stalwart crab of the marine Old Right. Untouched by any…
