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Opinion

2003 December Letters

Various

Questions of Reform In “True and False Reform.” (September), Avery Cardinal Dulles displays his usual clarity and…

Johnny of the Cross

Jr. Peter M. Candler

In the world of popular music, one generally becomes a “legend” only in death—as if death accomplishes…

A Bible for Everyone

Alan Jacobs

One summer years ago, I attended a conference that met at Princeton Theological Seminary; we participants stayed…

Jobs and Babies

Mary Beth Celio

It seems that most people who write about the joys and challenges of childrearing today are parents…

Reviews

Briefly Noted 58

Various

Style and Faith: Essays. By Geoffrey Hill. Counterpoint. 218 pp. $25. This slim but dense collection of…

Seekers and Finders

Wilfred M. McClay

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. by Paul Elie Farrar, Straus &…

The Reality of the Beautiful

Edward T. Oakes

Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue Yale University Press. 209 pp. $24.95 Several days after the massacre…

Pym Wins

Dermot Quinn

The Book Against God by James Wood Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 257 pp. $24. James Wood is…

The Limits of Theory

R. R. Reno

Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications by Daniel N. Robinson Princeton University Press Praise and…

Poetry

Summer’s End

David Anthony

Yesterday stealing from the sun dandelions lit the shaded path briefly. Now they’re gone. Hurry through faded…