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Opinion

Correspondence

Various

Misplacing Children

Gregory C. Popcak

Attempting social engineering at gun-point, the State of Massachusetts recently ordered the Catholic Church to place adoptive…

Jews and the World to Come

Byron L. Sherwin

n 2004, on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” correspondent Nina Totenberg declared, “Jews do not believe in…

Reviews

Unchurching

Jason Byassee

Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperSanFrancisco. 224 pp. $23.95. There are really two books here. One…

Jarring Sects

Wesley J. Smith

A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion by Pamela Winnick. Nelson Current. 368 pp. $25.99. Is science…

Faust in the USSR

Cynthia Grenier

The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin. Putnam. 354 pp. $24.95. Olga Grushin, a young Russian-born…

Our Bodies, Ourselves

Charles T. Rubin

Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto by simon youngprometheus, 417 pages, $28 The Singularity is Near: When Humans…

A Christian People

Thomas F. X. Noble

A People’s History of Christianity: Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Denis Janz, Richard A. Horsley, and…

Briefly Noted 84

Various

A Short History of Thomism. by Romanus Cessario. Catholic University, 106 pages, $19.95. There are Thomists, and…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

His Space and Time Each morning when he wakes he reaches forHis glasses and his watch, his…