February 2002
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In a Time of War: An Exchange
In their editorial “In a Time of War” (December 2001), the Editors of First Things declare: “One…
The Mess That Is Marriage
I had occasion recently to ponder the service folder from a wedding. In many respects this wedding…
The Body’s Possibilities
One week after the terrorist attacks of September 11, I went to the ballet. I wasn’t looking…
Off Center
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity By Darrin M. McMahon Oxford…
Briefly Noted 40
The 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law. English translation and scholarly apparatus by Edward N. Peters. Ignatius.…
The Burdens of Language
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays By Czeslaw Milosz Edited by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G.…
A Not-So-Radical Alternative
Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University…
Case for the Prosecution
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism By David L.…
The Churches and Israel
Christian Attitudes Towards the State of Israel By Paul Charles Merkley McGill-Queen’s University Press, 266 pages, $44.95…
A Lesson in Hermeneutics
In Kenya, vervet monkeys take the ground Until a sentry gives a chattering bark, Which in the…
On Giving Blood to the Red Cross
Flow, blood; you are not me but I have known your intercourse since the crimson dawn of…
Redemption
The angels offered reprieve, escape for Lot’s entire household including almost-sons who having witnessed a divine defense…
