December 2009
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Wondrous and Silly
On a bright day in early autumn, I found myself sitting on the floor of my favorite…
Thrillers and Throwbacks
Few of the current trends in crime- and mystery-fiction are salutary ones. The ascendancy of the thriller…
Lives and Legacies
Biography, Virginia Woolf once observed, is the search for the fertile fact. The four best biographies of…
The Needle’s Eye
The destinies of the aging but affluent people of the West and the young but impoverished people…
Pulling the Plug on the Conscience Clause
Over the past fifty years, the purposes and practices of medicine have changed radically. Where medical ethics…
The Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Judaism is not a doctrine but a life—the continuation of the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.…
The Nature of Desire
“This is the monstrosity in love, lady,” Troilus tells Cressida in Shakespeare’s play, “that the will is…
How Pedophilia Lost Its Cool
The reason that the monstrous crime of pedophilia matters is simple: In an increasingly secular age, it…
In Between the Angels and the Apes
Neither Beast nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person BY Gilbert Meilaender Encounter, 180 pages, $21.95…
Death for Fun and Profit
The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun) by Vladimir Nabakov Alfred A. Knopf, 278 pp., $35 SOMEWHERE…
In America’s Image
How American Experience Reflects Global Faith By Mark Noll InterVarsity, 212 pages, $25 EIGHT YEARS AGO, Diana…
Whose Modernity? Which Revolution?
The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence By David Walsh Cambridge, 518 pages, $29.99 CHARLES TAYLOR…
Freedom for Faith, Freedom for All
In Defense of Religious Liberty By David Novak ISI, 250 pages, $18 William James once quipped that…
Justifying Paul
Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision By N.T. Wright InterVarsity, 268 pages $25 NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED years…
Briefly Noted – 12/09
The Wine Of Certitude: A Literary Biography Of Ronald Knox by David Rooney Ignatius, 412 pages, $17.95…
Women Bent with Infinity
Unnamed, I was less than servant animals voiceless in their grazing or being led to water. On…
Majority
Now you’d be three, I said to myself, seeing a child born the same summer as you.…
Advent Carol
Hush that anguished hymn you’re humming: “Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” Trumpet Christmas! Fix his coming firmly at…
Farm Boy, Call Kayla
Brady, you went to school with pretty Kayla. You’re six feet one, soft spoken and you’re handsome,…
Believer
My friend insists he wants me to be saved. He argues that my soul will come to…
Bavarian Baroque
At first it’s like a painted teacup inverted, this gold-scalloped dome containing an apotheosis of saints triumphant…
