May 2019
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
liberal politesse R. R. Reno’s point in “The Civility Trap” (March) is well-taken: Nobody on the wrong…
Trump and Religious Liberty
Two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, conservative religious voters who supported him despite reports of his personal…
The Augsburg Concession
In 1869, the faithful of what was to be the Lutheran Free Church named their seminary and…
Why I Became Muslim
Growing up in twenty-first-century Britain, I was often struck by a feeling of anomie. Around the time…
Who Wants to Be a Diversity Dean?
You may have seen the news on March 5, when the State of Colorado Civil Rights Commission…
Comfort and the Peanut
Our founding fathers are rarely praised as fountains of mirth. As a child, I read and reread…
Restoration
(English Version | Version française) Michel Houellebecq: Many Americans probably don’t know that a Pentecostal movement exists…
Diplomacy and Persecution in China
We are witnessing a global crisis in religious freedom, wherein roughly three-quarters of the world’s people live…
Made for Love
In the early 1880s, Henry James set out to write “a very American tale.” The result was…
Immigration Idealism
For much of my life, I believed in open borders. Aside from violent criminals, I could think…
Comfort to Predators
In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisyby frédéric marteltranslated by shaun whitesidebloomsbury, 576 pages, $30…
Reefer Sadness
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violenceby alex berensonfree press, 272 pages, $26…
LGBT, Inc.
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movementby david k. johnsoncolumbia, 328 pages, $32 How did the…
Love, and Be Silent
Regretting Motherhood: A Studyby orna donathnorth atlantic, 272 pages, $15.95 In March, a self-help author tweeted that…
Briefly Noted
A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All…
Pieta
Your gown falls fold on fold, Mary, fullof shadows softening your odd proportions.You sit all wrong, holding…
Epithalamium
October 20, 2007 Dear Lynn, I haven’t met you yet, and yet, Because of your groom’s frank…
Skipping Stones
Because I’m tired of being angryat the world, I take my son to the riverwhere we pick…
Common Cause
When Solomon was born, birds came soaring, waddling, swimming, flapping around the air.They cheeped and honked to…
