May 2018
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Briefly Noted
Leonardo da Vinciby walter isaacsonsimon and schuster, 624 pages, $35 Walter Isaacson, best known for biographies of…
Fake Crimes
Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and pro-family organizations have a common adversary, one that is virulent and relentless. The…
Evangelical Gnosticism
I teach in a great books program at an Evangelical university. Almost all students in the program are…
Dissenters from Disenchantment
Monterey Peninsula College is a two-year school in California. Students in the Great Books Program there don’t…
Soloveitchik the Zionist
Rabbi, if only I knew our suffering was paving the way for the Messiah,” cried a Jewish…
Rights in Common
The dazzling efficiency with which corporate America exchanges its turkeys and pumpkins for snowmen and reindeer each…
Letters
ASSERTED, NOT ARGUED Robert Benne’s critique of Mitri Raheb’s lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (“Political Supersessionism,” March)…
The Theology of Foreign Policy
On matters of foreign policy, Americans are divided into two hidden camps. Not Republicans versus Democrats, nor…
Heal Our Wounds
Six months after he was elected to the Chair of Peter, Pope Francis made one of the…
America and Liberalism
The American experiment.” I cringed whenever Richard John Neuhaus used that formulation. We live in a country,…
Clarify Me, Please, God of the Galaxies
The English poet Elizabeth Jennings had the peculiar fate of being in the right place at the…
Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual
You’ve asked me how to become an intellectual. You’re young, it seems (only young people ask questions…
David as Politician
The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuelby moshe halbertal and stephen holmesprinceton, 232…
Having a Baby at the End of the World
Future Home of the Living Godby louise erdrichharpercollins, 288 pages, $28.99 Never trust the teller, trust the…
Our Lady of Everything
Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thoughtby…
Oscar Romero, Martyr and Saint
The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nationsby oscar romeroplough, 140 pages, $8…
The Cloud of Unknowing
Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence,Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to shareIn some impossible benevolence,To care and…
The Way Of Love
Don’t be afraid; and never yield to hate,whilst knowing love, appearing so pristine,contrasted to a thing as…
Prayer for the Farmers
Tonight I add a fourth chapter to prayer.I pray first for the ministries of priestswho serve me…
