January 2015
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Letters
The purpose of my book, Making Gay Okay, is to see what natural reason can tell us…
Standardized Culture
When standardized tests were first developed long ago (the SAT started in 1926), they had a virtuous…
Anti-Catholic Ireland
In July 2011, Ireland’s newly elected Prime Minister (or “Taoiseach”) Enda Kenny launched an unprecedented attack on…
Challenging Radical Islam
The world is being subjected to horrific images of religious violence. The Islamic State (IS) in Iraq…
Ad Litteram
When lecturing undergraduates on Kafka’s Metamorphosis—during his otherwise idyllic American years, when he had to make his…
How To Be a Sick Christian
When sickness or injury comes upon us, we face the question of whether we really believe what…
Building on Truth
Building is a willful act of symbolic import, sometimes intended and sometimes not, and all architecture expresses…
A New Concordat?
Vox temporis, vox Dei: The voice of the times is the voice of God. On issue after…
Strangers in a Strange Land
The video recording of the 2014 Erasmus Lecture can be viewed here. I’ve always had an affection for French…
Between Two Synods
On November 19, 1964, the draft text of Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom was abruptly pulled…
City of Google
Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet by antonio spadaro fordham, 160 pages, $24 The…
Infinite Circle
Gratitude: An Intellectual History? by peter j. leithart? baylor, 350 pages, $49.95 Peter Leithart’s Gratitude: An Intellectual…
Briefly Noted
Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World? by mitchell stephens? palgrave macmillan, ?336…
Toward Dystopia
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by nick bostrom oxford, 352 pages, $29.95 Since cofounding the World Transhumanist Association…
Embattled Middle
The New Class Conflictby joel kotkintelos, 230 pages, $29.95 About five years after we graduated from college…
Looking East
Turning to Tradition by d. oliver herbel oxford, 256 pages, $27.95 In 2010, Eastern Orthodox Christians in…
Dynasties and Ducks
Devoid of intellect and over-rated, this topic breaks the barriers of sound— an insubstantial episode created to…
Intensive Care
Through her final hour he gently clasps the icy silence of her pallid hand, her plea to…
October 27
You know what I remember first about my daughter being born? Weirdly, not the miracle of it,…
Balancing
To land in a story whose end I do not know— as if we ever saw to…
What’s in a Name?
A paralyzing gelid vortex of a January morning. He lay under the covers as the beckoning New…
Epiphany
Each year I shroud them in their bubble wrap, The kings next to the shepherds and their…
