February 2008
Henry Hyde (1924-2007)
In September 1984, I had a sabbatical year at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. One…
February Letters
Angles on Anglicanism What Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi describes in his essay “What Is Anglicanism?” (September 2007)…
Secularization Falsified
It has been more than a century since Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God. The prophecy was…
Getting Stem Cells Right
A true, no-cost resolution of a conflict, where the interests of all parties are served without compromise,…
Immigration and the Bishops
Frustrated by the national government’s failed efforts to reform our immigration laws, many states and municipalities have…
Who Can Be Saved?
Nothing is more striking in the New Testament than the confidence with which it proclaims the saving…
Theology, Politics, and Abraham Joshua Heschel
Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 by edward k. kaplan yale university press, 544 pages,…
Neither Hot Nor Cold
Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America’s Faith-Based Future By John J. DiIulio Jr. University of California…
The Wages of Advocacy
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha Nussbaum Basic Books, 320…
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $60…
Roaming Baptists
Towards Baptist Catholicityby steven r. harmonwipf and stock, 275 pages, $30 Given the bitterness of the Baptist…
Rethinking the Past
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny Oxford University Press, 4 volumes in one, 1,456…
Briefly Noted 213
The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square by Joseph Viteritti Princeton University…
The Legend of Saint Piran
They tied Saint Piran to a great millstone And flung that good man in the Irish Sea.…
Mirror Verse
Brightly it gapes at the room. Nothing can argue the glass out of its passive (but wait:…