February 2014
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Loving and Staying in Goma
Goma airport, the gateway to one of the largest and most strategic cities in the Democratic Republic…
Letters
Jesus in Islam In “Jesus the Muslim Hippie” (December), Gabriel Said Reynolds demonstrates the dissonance within the…
The Christian Theologian of Zion
Israel could not have hoped for as passionate an admirer as Fr. Marcel-Jacques Dubois, this most Israeli…
Living Offering
When your child is wrapped up in her own umbilical cord, the further the labor progresses, the…
A Phantom’s Visit (C.B.)
I could tell at once that he was a ghost. There was a certain translucency about him:…
Bloodless Moralism
Dame Rebecca West had a theory that the history of civilization since Christ could be divided into…
The Accidental Protestant
Few modern Protestants dealt as carefully, fully, or sympathetically with twentieth-century Catholicism as did Berkouwer,” writes Peter…
Looking for God in All the Wrong Places
On one side are the “ultra-Darwinists,” a term used by Stephen Jay Gould to criticize the stridency…
Alone in the New America
We were surprised to meet Anthony there: a twenty-six-year-old white man in an argyle sweater vest, white…
Francis and the Market
Francis and the Market In Evangelii Gaudium, the apostolic exhortation released just before Thanksgiving, Pope Francis focuses…
Art and Soul
A Prayer Journal by flannery o’connorfarrar, straus and giroux, 112 pages, $18 If we could accurately map…
Briefly Noted
Should We Live Forever? The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging by gilbert meilaender eerdmans, 135 pages, $18 An…
Dogmatic Philosophy
Religion Without Godby ronald dworkinharvard, 192 pages, $17.95 When he died last February, Ronald Dworkin had been…
Pears Not Pixels
Bleeding Edgeby thomas pynchonpenguin, 477 pages, $28.95 Don’t be fooled by the slapstick comedy and the silly…
Alien Development
Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Graceby keith d. stanglin and thomas h. mccalloxford, 258 pages, $27.99 Ultimately, as…
City, Empire, Church
Metamorphoses of the City: On the Western Dynamicby pierre manentharvard, 384 pages, $39.95 Today little attention is…
Paper Town
The fictional town of Agloe, New York, was invented as a copyright trap by cartographers to help…
The Guitar Maker
for Herbert Clancey Like the signature in maplewood of sun-splashed rain, this man’s bright pattern must remain…
Sleepers
Where are the Gods that used to walk the Weald,Where are their golden limbs and fiery faces,…
1945
Here is my dad in Manila. He is twenty-three years old. He is a master sergeant. His…
Apres moi, le Deluge
You needn’t be born a Bourbon To dream your funereal deluge, Some climactic climatic disturbance To rain…
The Devil in the Details
Slow, old python of my Everglades,he astutely picks where he invades:data dumps; the depths of lower courts;knotted…
Cosmology
They told us that we lost our lofty placewhen Galileo shattered Ptolemy’sconcentric spheres, hurled Earth into the…
