June/July 2011
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
CHALLENGING EVANGELICALS If Gerald McDermott is right, Martin Luther is the person ultimately responsible for liberal theology…
Playing the Long Season
Unlike many in our society, I find myself becoming less rather than more inter-ested in the NCAA…
Westernizing Islam and the American Right
At the end of The Searchers, John Wayne stands framed by the darkened doorway of a cabin,…
A Bumping Boxcar Language
I await with great delight the first translation of the Novus Ordo Mass into English. The bland,…
Fig Leaves and Falsehoods
The exposé of Planned Parenthood engineered by Live Action has not only disclosed some illegal and immoral…
A Prophet Wrongly Honored
Terry Eagleton made his name in the 1980s by demonstrating that it is possible to write wittily…
Blessed John Paul II and His Times
The beatification of Pope John Paul II on May 1, 2011, six years after his holy death,…
The Preferential Option for the Poor
A year or so ago I got together with some college friends. Good guys—careers, families, some churchgoers,…
God’s Patient Stet
It is a sobering thought that Richard Wilbur, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1957, 1989) who was…
The Truth About Greenhouse Gases
The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances…
Missing Religion
Does God Make a Difference? Taking Religion Seriously in Our Schools and Universities by Warren A. Nord…
Ancient Destinations, Modern Journeys
Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 422 pages, $28 n…
Elective Antipathies
Simone Weil by Palle Yourgrau Reaktion Books, 189 pages, $16.95, paper n Simone Weil continues to fascinate.…
Huck Finn the Israelite
The Instructions by Adam Levin McSweeney’s, 1030 pages, $29 n Using the kind of comprehensive, pick-a-fight judgments…
Briefly Noted
Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy by Samuel Gregg Edward Elgar, 216 pages, $115 n Once upon a time,…
The Christ-Frost
After I had burned alive a spell, spellbound by the burning that bound me, I saw an…
Among the Names of the Most Holy and Unnamable One
Elk calf, first five minutes on four legs, the shimmy and wobble of her. The undeniable inarguable…
Sales Pitch
He walked with me around the grounds, expecting me to give away” by how I sighed at…
Priests’ Graveyard
In five neat rows, white crosses sprout like daffodils upon the graves, as if their blooms could…
Tongued Fire
Tender gift of lifting one’s hands, understanding there’s a force enforcing that promise sprung from a distant…
Death by Water
Every sea-born whale is born to drown, Save those lost few who crush their final breath On…
