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Opinion

Letters

Various

Bearing Witness through marriage Liberal evangelical Ron Sider makes a strong case in favor of the ancient…

Essays

Through Yoga to Christianity

Losana Boyd

In the early 1990s I was living a high-stress lifestyle: running a successful international business and raising…

Race Matters

James Nuechterlein

Americans like to think of their history as a success story. And so, by most measures, and…

The End of the Bernardin Era

George Weigel

Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin died on November 14, 1996, after a moving and profoundly Christian battle with…

A Philosopher in the Twilight

David Bentley Hart

In his preface to the Philosophy of Right, Hegel famously remarks that the owl of Minerva takes…

Culture and the Light of Faith

Robert Louis Wilken

Since the Enlightenment it has been fashionable to denounce Christians for prostituting the legacy of classical culture.…

The Good News About Evangelicalism

Byron Johnson

Evangelicalism is not what it used to be. Evangelicals were once derided for being uneducated, unsophisticated, and…

The Catholic I Am

Gilbert Meilaender

In recent years those of us who are Lutherans have witnessed a steady stream of Lutheran theologians—many…

Reviews

Faith and Responsibility

R. R. Reno

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell Simon…

A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver

Ryan T. Anderson

Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass edited by Yuval…

A Review of Every Riven Thing

David J. Rothman

Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 93 pages, $24 n Christian Wiman is…

A Jihad Against Anti-Semitism

Jennifer S. Bryson

The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism by Tarek Fatah Mcclelland…

The Real Myth

Gerald J. Russello

The Myth of American Religious Freedom by David Sehat Oxford, 368 pages, $29.95 n Conservatives, argues David…

The Coens Keep the Faith

Armond White

Famous for the Oscar-winning movies Fargo and No Country for Old Men , the team of filmmaking…

Squaring the Circle

James Kalb

The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends by…

Poetry

Magnificat

Len Krisak

Already gravid, she ascended, nearly bereft of any solace, faith, or hope. The pregnant matron, proudly and…

Now Once Again

Robert Pack

Now once again the glaring moon, A mirror in the midnight sky, A single flower in an…

Eleven

Catherine Chandler

players on a soccer team stars in Joseph’s second dream odd reversible and prime dimensions (counting space…

Pilgrimage

Michael McFee

Six days a week, this solo pilgrimage across the wildnerness of weedy sloughs and uphill root-snares and…

Father Tom Leads the Faithful in Prayer

Timothy Murphy

We pray first for our Pope. Lend him the strength to cope with those who have no…