May 2016
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Briefly Noted
Saint Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota)by zach czaiawipf and stock, 66 pages, $7.50 A fter years of…
Stott Bowdlerized
R ecently I bought a copy of John Stott’s brief and famous exposition of the Christian gospel,…
Click Fix
The camera-phone has inaugurated an era of therapeutic photography. It is a photography less concerned with producing…
College Without Truth
N ot long ago, I was an assistant professor of history at the most racially and ethnically…
Letters
Bad Buildings Justin Shubow’s “Monument to Failure” (March) comes at a particularly critical time in our fight…
Mormons Approaching Orthodoxy
In the spring of 1836, a few weeks before his Kirtland, Ohio, baptism into the Mormon Church,…
Scientific Regress
The problem with science is that so much of it simply isn’t. Last summer, the Open Science…
Look At Me
Twenty-three years ago, under the pseudonym Catherine Maurice, a woman wrote a book about recovering her small…
Against Human Rights
The Christian roots of Europe: The phrase puts me off. It points to something true, yes, and…
A Church that Was
Yes, I remember the Church of England, much more than a name, a living thing. As it…
Gain and Loss
John Henry Newman: A Portrait in Letters edited by roderick strangeoxford, 608 pages, $49.50 W riting to…
An Orthodox Island
Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood by iddo tavory chicago, 224 pages, $27.50 In…
Parable
“Virtue! a fig! ’tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.Our bodies are our gardens, to…
A Bower in the Arsacides
A hippie peddles jewelryBeneath a poinciana tree,A mother picks her daughter upBacklit before an endless sea. All…
The Threat
Barabbas we can understand—a bit unhinged, but we have planned for that containable derangement,just as in the…
Conjuring a Son
Mom asks, “How’s your son?”every time I visit now.(I’ve never had one.) She asks it loudlysweetly crinkling…
Queen of the May
My Lady, Queen of Heaven, Queen of Earth,I weave for you a crown of white muguet.Delightful, fragrant,…
Your Grandmother’s Verse
She writes it with a quill pen, so they say,On cream-smooth vellum (paper she refuses).A photo of…
