March 2008
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The Giving and Taking of Organs
In The Patient as Person , published almost forty years ago, when transplantation technology was still in…
Where Have All the Moonies Gone?
The Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), founded in 1975 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, lies nestled in…
Lincoln and the Will of God
The famed nineteenth-century mystic Nettie Colburn Maynard wasn’t a professional writer”her time spent communing with the Next…
How to Read the Bible
Allegory fell on hard times in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although the charm of beloved works…
The Judgment of Memory
I My wife dreams of Brazilian cities: Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, enormous South American cityscapes…
The Classical Age
Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer University of California Press, 251 pages, $24.95 It’s perhaps…
The Spirit of Vatican II
A Challenging Reform: Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal, 1963-1975 by Piero Marini Liturgical Press, 205…
What McGovern Wrought
Why the Democrats Are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People’s Party by Mark Stricherz…
God Returns to French Philosophy
Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion edited by Kevin Hart University of Notre Dame Press, 496 pages, $40 René…
The Cross Under the Crescent
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque:Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam by sidney…
Briefly Noted 214
A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin’s Russia by Anna…
Annunciation
In Madagascar there are moths that sip tears from sleeping birds. How hushed the wing; how light…
Incantation
The carapace of each past day: undo. Let the scales fall and if remote and small still…
Eucalypts in Exile
They’ve had so many jobs: boiling African porridge. Being printed on. Paving Paris, flying in her revolutions.…
