January 2020
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
Faith & Fertility Darel E. Paul offers an elegant explication of Eric Kaufmann’s complex ethno-political projection of the…
Islam Made Me Christian
I grew up in northern Italy, in a Catholic household. For us, as for many Italian families, being…
Laughing Against the Dark
Keeping a straight face, I’m going to argue that American popular comedy has lost the virtue of…
Seizing the Crown of Thorns
As we watch the mostly white officials of the Democratic party pander to black Americans with talk…
How to Lose a Cold War (and Why)
North by Northwest’s style is so impeccable, its tone so effervescent, that many viewers fail to grasp…
Sincerity is Not Self-Knowledge
Teshuva means return, and return in the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish legal tradition means return to…
Work vs. Consumption
In this issue, Oren Cass explodes the false dichotomy between cultural questions and economic ones (“The Problem…
Catholic Zionism
In 1965, in Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is…
Bodily Curiosities
I am not altogether incurious, but one entity about which I have over the years felt little…
Hawthorne’s Daughter
In 1891, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was received into the Catholic Church.…
The Problem with the Culture Problem
Shorthand is convenient, but sometimes it confuses. In the game of telephone, by which ideas evolve through…
Atwood’s False Testament
The Testamentsnnby margaret atwoodnntalese, 432 pages, $28.95 Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in 1986 of…
How Christianity Changed Singleness
The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman Worldnedited by sabine r. huebner and christian laesnncambridge,…
Puritanism Then and Now
The Puritans: A Transatlantic Historynby david d. hallnnprinceton, 520 pages, $35 When Greta Thunberg, the teenage Green…
The Unreasonable Man
Churchill: Walking With Destinynby andrew robertsnnviking, 1152 pages, $40 Speaking to his friend Frederick Lindemann in the…
The Individualist
Jacob’s Ladder: The Unauthorised Biography of Jacob Rees-Moggby michael ashcroft biteback, 352 pages, £20 On February 2,…
Briefly Noted
One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Grahamby grant wacker eerdmans, 256 pages, $24.99 The…
Talking All Night
I asked my friend, the poet,how she was getting by.“Work and tears,”came her reply. “And listening,” she…
All Bright Things
At Chartres, we see the stained glass windows slumpfrom centuries of gravity, becomingthicker glass at bottom than…
Litany
For the fire that answers the covering dark,For every marriage that ends in faith,For the hand that…
Breakfield Road
(for Jake, 1989-2005) The briar draws a perfect bead of bloodto tender flesh as my dog pulls…
Christingle
The power-cut candle’s wobbly precisionushers the church hall back into vision.We assembled them on a mess table:first…
Requiem for Ethel
Your eyes sparkled. And there was playfulnessIn your smile that veiled your age,Softening the hard years with…
Kilmainham Gaol
We stand in crooked lines outside the gate,Where my new bride and I map out our day,As…
Epiphany
He tells himself a tale his grandmother told:Babuschka sleeps by the fire. Outside new snowLaps the window.…
