January 2009
Abortion After Obama
It happens every four years”maybe every two years: Anytime there’s an election in this country, the pundits…
Asking the Wrong Question
I recently attended two conversations under the aegis of the Templeton Foundation’s Big Questions initiative. Both dealt…
The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s
Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most…
Christianity Face to Face with Islam
No event during the first millennium was more unexpected, more calamitous, and more consequential for Christianity than…
A Nation of Hustlers
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829“1877 by Walter A. McDougall Harper, 787 pages, $34.95…
An Apology for Democratic Capitalism
Until 1989, the most underreported fact of the twentieth century was the death of socialism. Socialism as…
Messianic Gentiles & Messianic Jews
Mark S. Kinzer I am a Messianic Jew”a Jew who adheres to Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth as…
O Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by julian barnesknopf, 256 pages, $24.95 Death has many masks. He comes…
Mind Games
Work on Oneself: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Psychology by Fergus Kerr Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press, 119 pages,…
The Body of the Church
Can These Bones Live? A Catholic Baptist Engagement with Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory by Barry Harvey…
Examination of Conscience
The Problem of Natural Law by Douglas?Kries Lexington, 214 pages, $25.95 The decade after the Second World…
Briefly Noted 224
Phenomenology of the Human Person by Robert Sokolowski Cambridge University Press, 360 pages, $26.99 paper Robert Sokolowski…
Homecoming
Sometimes I dream I’m flying just above the plain” the world in wheat beneath me, the rivers…
Body Shadows
Once upon a time the Chairman ordered the complete destruction of the “Four Pests” plaguing China: bedbugs,…
Desert Blossoming
The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the…
Ghazal to the One
Sun’s bliss, leaf shadows, a honeyed breeze” The world as he would have it be for you,…
Disfigure of Speech
I hear the yowling of the cats of war . . . Oh no . . .…