January 2016
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A Dialogue Upon the Island
On the strand, Ariel and Caliban: the former seated atop a milk-white boulder with knees drawn up…
Deliver Us From Innocence
God preserve us from all innocence,” Querry tells Mother Agnes in Graham Greene’s 1960 novel A Burnt-Out…
Mary, Mother of All
My children shower me with affection, so I have no real reason to go fishing for more…
God’s Strangeness
Skimming through a stack of books recently, I found myself reading a testimonial of sorts from James…
Letters
Teachers In his “Re-Educate for America” (November), Malcolm Rivers identifies correctly the cultural hegemony that undergirds the…
Liberalism’s Future
When it comes to equality, the rising generation of liberal leaders may talk the talk, but they’re…
Dissenter for the Absolute
No American philosophy has as yet been produced,” complained Charles Sanders Peirce in 1866. “Since our country…
Ministries of Life
If you ride New York City’s subways, you will see public service advertisements blazoned above you. Some…
A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism
Let’s begin with a story. It’s one I’ve heard many times; it’s one I’ve told more than…
What Really Happened at Synod 2015
The following is a preview from our January issue: When the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the…
Religious Rights
Christian Human Rights by samuel moyn university of pennsylvania, 264 pages, $24.95 Samuel Moyn, a professor of…
Scout’s Grown Up
Go Set a Watchman by harper lee harpercollins, 288 pages, $27.99 It might be the greatest American…
Endangered Faiths
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by gerard russell basic…
Winter Songs
Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by ian bostridge knopf, 528 pages, $29 One hundred and…
Properly Basic
Knowledge and Christian Belief by alvin plantinga eerdmans, 141 pages, $16 D oes God exist? Is it…
Leaving Riga
Romanticism: A German Affair by rüdiger safranski northwestern, 376 pages, $35 During the early Romantic era, subjective…
Bad Advice
“Do not go gentle into that good night” —Dylan Thomas Not gentle, I went mad, as that…
Francis After Collestrada
Our army met Perugia’s on the plainbeside the hospital. All day we foughtwith crossbow, sword, and lancet…
The Power of Love
When I go walking on the street My Guardian Angel walks behind. I hear the rustling of…
On a Young Writer
By practice skill is got, by practice wit is won.—George Turberville On being asked by a young…
Open the Way
Open the Way for God? Take to the road,Calvary Hill. It is no easy path.Give up your…
