November 2012
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Briefly Noted
Debating Same-Sex Marriage by John Corvino and?Maggie Gallagher Oxford, 296 pages, $16.95 n The debate surrounding same-sex…
Letters
After Liberalism As a student of late medieval political thought, I was happy to see that my…
A Spade to Dig With
For a large part of the past school year, my daughter and her classmates went to school…
Fencing the Altar
For several years, Raymond Cardinal Burke, now Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, and…
Therapeutic Superstition
Some years ago, when I was nineteen and living in the north of England, I knew a…
On Susan
Susan was a colleague in Baylor’s Honors College, not exactly a friend, though we were quite friendly.…
A Friendly Dissent from Pentecostalism
Rudolf Bultmann, the German New Testament scholar whose program for the “demythologization” of the Gospel provoked a…
The Jewish Mission
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission…
The Tridentine Genius of Vatican II
Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, two schools of thought dominate the interpretation…
The Battle Already Won
If we believe in the sure triumph of Christ, why do we allow ourselves to be drawn…
Chastened Humanism
You cannot help but like a serious thinker who demolishes the pretensions of various fashionable currents of…
In God’s Name
The Divine Name(s) and the ?Holy Trinity: Distinguishing ?the Voices (volume 1) by R. Kendall Soulen Westminster…
Teenage Muslim Misadventures
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar Little, Brown, 368 pages, $24.99 n Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish has been…
Childish Adults
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Yale, 368 pages, $28 n With three pre-schoolers in…
Salutary Slander
The Virtues of Our Vices: ? A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by…
Miraculous Witness
Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts by Craig S. Keener Baker Academic, 1172 pages, $59.99…
Scrutinizing the Sacred
The Face of God by Roger Scruton Continuum, 200 pages, $27.95 The search for God can take…
Lifeline
for Riley At twenty inches tall you first stood up, Attracting my attention with loud coos Under…
Changelings
Listen, your changeling children are swinging like monkeys, Hand-over-hand through the leaves of the trees of the…
The Glory and Decline of Bread
Sliced bread (sic) a centimeter thick staling on forty surfaces fit for soggy sandwiches real bread excels…
Travel Magazine Revised
The beauty luring men aboard the ship In time’s a wreck, unsightly and ignored. The handsome playboy…
Sisters
The sisters, quick to gather, like moths to candlewick, mourn another sudden death, with thrumming talk and…
Mixed Blessings
Thanksgiving Day, 2010 The turkey’s in the oven. My bare feet rest on the windowsill. A welcome…
