June/July 2006
Misplacing Children
Attempting social engineering at gun-point, the State of Massachusetts recently ordered the Catholic Church to place adoptive…
Jews and the World to Come
n 2004, on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” correspondent Nina Totenberg declared, “Jews do not believe in…
Unchurching
Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperSanFrancisco. 224 pp. $23.95. There are really two books here. One…
Jarring Sects
A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion by Pamela Winnick. Nelson Current. 368 pp. $25.99. Is science…
Faust in the USSR
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin. Putnam. 354 pp. $24.95. Olga Grushin, a young Russian-born…
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto by simon youngprometheus, 417 pages, $28 The Singularity is Near: When Humans…
A Christian People
A People’s History of Christianity: Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Denis Janz, Richard A. Horsley, and…
Briefly Noted 84
A Short History of Thomism. by Romanus Cessario. Catholic University, 106 pages, $19.95. There are Thomists, and…
Poetry
His Space and Time Each morning when he wakes he reaches forHis glasses and his watch, his…