December 2015
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Faith-Based Resistance
Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the…
Letters
africa John Azumah, author of “Through African Eyes” (October), has been my colleague and friend at Columbia…
Habetis Papam
F ar be it from me—not being a Roman Catholic—to tell Catholics what they should think of…
Recovering Creativity
According to Gallup, less than one-third of the U.S. population describes itself as socially liberal. Yet in…
The Beastly Paradox
Blaise Pascal spoke of the contradiction in every human heart. Man is an animal at once godlike…
The Crisis of Our Time
In this issue, David Hart commends Pope Francis as a critic of global capitalism. I’m less enthusiastic.…
Living with a Mind
I was brought up in a culture that made no special place for the “intellectual” as a…
Reckoning with Modernity
In the late summer of 1977, I made my way to New Haven, Connecticut, not yet twenty-two…
A Jubilee Year of Mercy
Pope Francis has announced a jubilee Year of Mercy, starting December 8. He is hardly the first…
Two Theories of Immigration
Today there are twenty million refugees who have crossed international borders to escape violence and abject poverty.…
Revealing God
Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation: The Mediation of the Gospel through Church and Scripture by matthew levering…
Pope Packer
J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life by leland ryken crossway, 432 pages, $30 I f Evangelical Protestants…
Go Figure
Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness by richard b. hays baylor, 177 pages, $34.95…
Accepting Limits
The Prophet of Cuernavaca: Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West by todd hartch oxford, 256…
Raw Tales
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by jacob and wilhelm grimm translated and…
The Joke around the Water Cooler and Other Dilemmas
Let us nail ourselves to him, resistingthe temptation to stand apart or to joinothers in mocking him.”…
There Are Books in the House
For Gerd Stern The row of books is talking like a ghostin mildewy damp voices. Look at…
Sabbath
Sabbath: You make demandsupon my heart, upon my hands,and, certainly, upon my mind:a quietness, profound, benignwhere receptivity…
Roll Call at Acheron
The sound was coming from so far awaywe thought at first it was the breath we missedthe…
An Epitaph for my Parents’ Graves
Their headstones now have sunken into sand,amid tall weeds, some cholla, scattered sage,the writing visible, but not…
The Christmas Preface
There, in the hay’s warmth and the steaming sty,The Word born to the frailty of fleshCracks our…
