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Opinion

Episcopalian Preferences Revisited

Various

I very much appreciated reading Philip Turner’s ruminations about “The Episcopalian Preference” (November 2003). I have thought…

Gibson’s Passion

Russell Hittinger Elizabeth Lev

From mosaics and music to paintings and plays, the arts have proven to be a mighty vehicle…

A Jury of One’s Godless Peers

Robert T. Miller

Reading First Things may disqualify you from sitting on a jury, at least if a lawyer decides…

Evangelicals in the Dock

Peter J. Leithart

It’s called straining a gnat and swallowing a camel. At its annual meeting in Atlanta in November…

Reviews

Briefly Noted 18

Various

“We Are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. By David Herbert Donald. Simon & Schuster. 269…

Jefferson’s Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind

Wilfred M. McClay

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a little different from the other great monuments of Washington, D.C. Standing…

Art: A New History

John J. Reilly

Yes, it is possible to write a single-volume general history of art, if you narrow the definition…

Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy

Philip Bess

In the moderately memorable 1997 movie The Edge , Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin portray characters marooned…

The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth

Geoffrey Wainwright

Few, if any, other theologians could have written The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian…