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Opinion

Henry Hyde (1924-2007)

George Weigel

In September 1984, I had a sabbatical year at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. One…

February Letters

Various

Angles on Anglicanism What Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi describes in his essay “What Is Anglicanism?” (September 2007)…

Secularization Falsified

Peter L. Berger

It has been more than a century since Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God. The prophecy was…

Getting Stem Cells Right

Maureen L. Condic

A true, no-cost resolution of a conflict, where the interests of all parties are served without compromise,…

Immigration and the Bishops

Michael A. Scaperlanda

Frustrated by the national government’s failed efforts to reform our immigration laws, many states and municipalities have…

Essays

Who Can Be Saved?

Avery Cardinal Dulles

Nothing is more striking in the New Testament than the confidence with which it proclaims the saving…

Theology, Politics, and Abraham Joshua Heschel

David Novak

Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 by edward k. kaplan yale university press, 544 pages,…

Saved in Hope: Benedict’s Second Encyclical

Richard John Neuhaus

Reviews

Neither Hot Nor Cold

James Nuechterlein

Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America’s Faith-Based Future By John J. DiIulio Jr. University of California…

The Wages of Advocacy

Steven D. Smith

Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha Nussbaum Basic Books, 320…

Till We Have Built Jerusalem

Matthew Alderman

The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $60…

Roaming Baptists

Curtis W. Freeman

Towards Baptist Catholicityby steven r. harmonwipf and stock, 275 pages, $30 Given the bitterness of the Baptist…

Rethinking the Past

Michael Gorman

A New History of Western ­Philosophy by Anthony Kenny Oxford University Press, 4 volumes in one, 1,456…

Briefly Noted 213

Various

The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square by Joseph Viteritti Princeton University…

Poetry

The Legend of Saint Piran

Frederick Turner

They tied Saint Piran to a great millstone And flung that good man in the Irish Sea.…

Mirror Verse

Robert B. Shaw

Brightly it gapes at the room. Nothing can argue the glass out of its passive (but wait:…