January 2012
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Briefly Noted
A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in this Life and the Next ? by David…
Letters
Purgatorial Conformity Gary Anderson (“Is Purgatory Biblical?” November) gives a capable defense of the doctrine of purgatory…
Homeschooling’s Liberalism
The other day someone asked about our children, and my answer worried him, or at least he…
A Case for Later Marriage
At my parish moms’ club, mothers arrive in the church hall with their preschoolers and toddlers ready…
The Precious Steven Pinker
I sometimes find it hard to believe that Steven Pinker really believes what he believes; surely, I…
The Desert’s Austere Grace
It is not the kind of road you ever want to find yourself driving on in a…
Hope-Bridled Grief
The death of a loved one is excruciatingly painful, and it would seem wrong to ask moral…
A Philosophy for the Powerful
Once animated by revolutionary ardor, our secular intellectuals have reached a dead end. Today they pen books…
Loving the Law
Christianity has long been susceptible to antinomian temptations. St. Paul’s pointed and often rhetorically violent rejections of…
A Complete Life
John Hall Wheelock, a minor twentieth-century poet—dubbed “the last romantic” in the title of his oral autobiography—captured…
Disestablishing Our Secular Schools
Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished in the United States,…
Libertarian Limits
On Tolerance: ? A Defence of Moral Independence by Frank Furedi Continuum, 224 pages, $22.95 The independent-minded…
Uncanny Man
A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear Harvard, 224 pages, $29.95 Not long before 9/11, a young…
A Balanced Mind
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L.…
Real Reform?
Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty by Mustafa Akyol Norton, 352 pages, $25.95 In a…
Unconservative Evangelicals
From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism by D. G. Hart…
Dream Vocation
It happened in a country like Tibet, My dream: I’d climbed a mountain pass and found Where…
The Death of Isaac Nathan, 1864
Stone statues of ancient waves tongue like dingoes on shore in time with wave-glitter on the harbor…
A Gift
The boy comes to the back door of the parish, bearing he says, “A gift.” A crib,…
Undone
The women knew their effort was in vain: No box of unguent, myrrh, or aloes could Prevent…
