December 2024
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Lady Scrooges
I noticed it last Christmas: It’s the women who really hate Ebenezer Scrooge. In the opening scene of…
Let God
I’m a great lover of the English language, but I must confess that, lately, I’ve come to…
Mere Christendom
Douglas Wilson argues for what ought to be uncontroversial: governance by wise Christians. He calls it “mere Christendom”…
The Less You Know
There’s a car mechanic I have known for years. Ed knew my father and worked on his…
Letters – December 2024
Still Breathing I appreciated Matthew Burdette’s insights into “Progressive Supersessionism” (October 2024), drawing out continuities between today’s…
America’s Atheist Diplomacy
For the last two years, a little-watched congressional investigation has been exploring the nature of religious freedom…
What Catholics Should Think About Climate Change
Climate change poses risks to people throughout the world. Christians have a moral duty to mitigate those…
Resist the Conception Machine
The almost complete lack of reflection on the normalization of assisted reproductive technologies for producing children is…
Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button
All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of…
Overcoming Theological Amnesia
Ressourcement. It’s a French word that means “resourcing”—or, better, “re-sourcing.” As a term in theology, it calls…
Night of the World
Martin Heidegger is notorious for his embrace of Nazism in the 1930s. Yet he was a luminous…
Real Persons
How to Know a Person:The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by david brooksrandom…
Changing God’s Mind
The Widening of God’s Mercy:Sexuality Within the Biblical Story by christopher b. hays and richard b. haysyale…
Ready for Weirdness
Living in Wonder:Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age by rod dreherzondervan, 288 pages, $29.99 Is…
Disintegrating England
The English Soul:Faith of a Nation by peter ackroydreaktion books, 416 pages, $30 Peter Ackroyd is a…
Solidarity About Nothing
Democracy and Solidarity:On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis by james davison hunteryale university, 504 pages,…
Real Persons
David Brooks, an opinion columnist at the New York Times, has set himself a remarkable task: finding…
Solidarity About Nothing
Democracy and Solidarity:On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisisby James Davison HunterYale University, 504 pages, $40…
Apophatic
Not with the myth and phosphorus of metaphor. Notwith lines of force looped in true-love knots.Not by…
Spontaneous Loss
Those early weeks, you could have been anyone, Too young for fingerprints, much less a name,And years…
