May 2011
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
The Reformation and Churchly Scripture There is a tension in Protestant ecclesiology that Timothy George only hints…
The Bearable Lightness of Dignity
It’s hard to imagine a decent politics that doesn’t depend on the notion of the dignity of…
The Trials of American Lutheranism
The two largest Lutheran churches in America have now broken up: the Lutheran Church“Missouri Synod (LCMS) in…
Ideology and Transcendence
Everyone thinks ideologically, but no one wants to admit it. Most of our responses to events in…
Counting China’s Christians
Through much of the twentieth century, it was widely believed among Western intellectuals that the Chinese were…
The Emancipation of Avarice
The last few years have seen a surprising revival of the term “greed.” For many decades, the…
Religion, Reason, and Same-Sex Marriage
In the contemporary debate on the future of marriage, there appears to be, amid many uncertainties, one…
The Trouble with Ayn Rand
It is one of the most indelibly memorable scenes, and certainly the best twist ending, to have…
A Review of Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
Constancy and the Ethics of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park by Joyce Kerr Tarpley Catholic University of America,n288…
When It’s Time to Stop Talking
Contested Reproduction by John H. Evans University of Chicago Press, 213 pages, $45 n Is talking about…
Evangelical Ressourcement
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma Eerdmans, 218 pages, $20 n The…
A Review of The Future of History
The Future of History by John Lukacs Yale University Press, 192 pages, $24 n Historian John Lukacs…
A Review of To Change the World
To Change the World by James Davison Hunter Oxford University Press, 368 pages, $27.95 n In his…
Knowing the Beautiful
Poetry, Beauty, and Contemplation: The Complete Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain by John Trapani Catholic University of America,…
Shaping Up the Campus
Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities by Mark C. Taylor Knopf,…
Stringed Instrument
Don’t spend time stringing and tuning your instrument. Start making music now! Lucky Numbers 33, 2, 37,…
The Canonization
Rome 17 October 2010 Mary MacKillop, born 1842, what are the clergy giving you on my birthday,…
Overcast
Deep in the country of unbroken clouds, The sundry broken crowds Have wondered for unnumbered years what…
Mato Paha
Like an emergent moth I’m flitting up a slope. Here strips of colored cloth affixed to every…
Les Regrets, Sonnet 38
Lucky: the man who measures out his days among his equals—simple, honest, free, not gripped by cramping…
Victorian Studies
Have you ever noticed how obsessed the Victorians were with Queer Theory? How unstable their identities were”…
