January 2011
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
Natural Law, Franckly Speaking Matthew Franck has been a friend, and I know he was seeking to…
Miraculous Box
In the 1950s, late in the architect’s life, Le Corbusier built the chapel of Notre Dame du…
Evangelizing Islam
In the book The Critique of Christian Origins , written in a.d. 995, Iranian theologian Abd al-Jabbar…
The Man-Made Messiah
The most recognized face of any Jewish leader of the past fifty years belongs to the late…
America, America
Americans have always been an intensely patriotic people. Most of them love their country without reserve and…
The Last of the Saffron Monks
Most mornings, U Pyinya Zawta meditates for an hour in lotus position, hands resting gently in his…
Keeping the Peace
Over the last few years there has been a sharp change in the rhetoric of the Catholic…
Philosophy Lives
Philosophy, Étienne Gilson observed, “always buries its undertakers.” “Philosophy,” according to Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, in…
The Ruins of Discontinuity
On September 19, 2010, at Crofton Park in Birmingham, England, Pope Benedict XVI beatified John Henry Newman.…
The Man Who Would Be King
1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $34.99 n…
A Review of A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock ‘n’ Roll
A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock ’n’ Roll by Mark Judge Doubleday, 208 pages, $14…
A Review of Chastened
Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex by Hephzibah Anderson Viking, 288 pages, $25.95 n…
Faith Forming Culture
Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village by Juliet du Boulay Denise Harvey, 462 pages,…
A Review of Early Modern Jewry
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History by David B. Ruderman Princeton, 336 pages, $35 n “Early,…
A Review of Full of Grace
Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, Art, and Life by Judith Dupré Random House, 352 pages,…
Review of Letters to a Young Calvinist
Letters to a Young Calvinist by James K.A. Smith Brazos, 160 pages, $14.99 Inspired by two very…
Our Babies, Ourselves
Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow Oxford, 320 pages, $29.95…
A Review of Redeeming Economics
Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element by John D. Mueller ISI Books, 400 pages, $27.95 n Harry…
Geeks with Guns
The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah by Joel Chasnoff Free Press,…
A Review of The Friends We Keep
The Friends We Keep by Laura Hobgood-Oster Baylor, 230 pages, $19.95 n Laura Hobgood-Oster’s new book on…
False Hope Springs Eternal
The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton Oxford, 240 pages, $29.95…
A Review of The World in the Shadow of God
The World in the Shadow of God: An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology by Ephraim Radner Cascade,…
A Review of Aesthetic Revelation
Aesthetic Revelation: Reading Ancient and Medieval Texts After Hans Urs von Balthasar by Oleg V. Bychkov Catholic…
In a Funeral Procession
O soon will come the day when my grave-bound motorcade is led past sidewalk gawkers wondering who…
Christianity Comes to Northumbria
According to England’s first historian, the Venerable Bede, King Edwin of seventh-century Northumbria pondered the question of…
Gargoyle
Consider the fierce stone features of its face a vaccination of demonic strain, a backfire lit on…
Two Davids
Michelangelo’s David is too smooth and fair and too Italian”too much like a boy who’d stand with…
Quid Hoc Ad Aeternitatem
Quid hoc ad aeternitatem, as old Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Used to mumble when faced with the…
Tough
The Spartan boy who steals a fox endures with fortitude the roiling mound scratching at his proud…
Giotto’s Epiphany
Who before Giotto thought to remove the king’s crown— this first from the earth’s kingdoms come to…
