November 2020
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Letters
Southern Baptists In “Why I Am a Baptist” (August/September), Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. inadvertently gives the…
For Love of Mary
My journey to baptism started with a plunge into water. My wife and I were awakened late…
Publishers’ Bind
Recently, I paged through a friend’s copy of a just-released bestseller in political theory. I then ordered…
Until We Rest in Him
I’ve been dreading this November for the past year. In half a century of voting, I’ve been…
Look Out, Ol’ Mackie Is Back!
When I first read Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind more than thirty years ago,…
Show Me Your Glory
Sometimes it’s difficult to convey Jewish thinking to Christians precisely when it appears almost identical with the…
The Season of Our Discontent
We’re all on edge. Only this morning, two of my neighbors were bickering in the lobby of…
Theological Theology
Baby boomers still run much of the world, and sadly, their greatest theologian has already died. John…
Standing Against Tyranny
A year before the end of his long life (1895–1998), the German author Ernst Jünger converted to…
Thou
One of the disappointing features of our controversies about biblical translations, the readings in the lectionary, the…
Pietas
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days…
Postconstitutional America
The Stakes:America at the Point of No Returnby michael antonregnery, 500 pages, $32.99 Beginning with his essay…
Illiberal Protestants
Protestants and American Conservatism:A Short Historyby gillis harp oxford, 336 pages, $36.95 Today, conservative critics of liberalism…
Poet of Loneliness
Fifty-Two Stories by anton chekhov translated by richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky knopf, 528 pages, $35 No…
Resist in Truth
Live Not by Lies:A Manual for Christian Dissidentsby rod dreher sentinel, 256 pages, $27 In 1951, security…
The Neo-Confucian Bluff
Against Political Equality:The Confucian Caseby tongdong bai princeton, 344 pages, $39.95 Just Hierarchy:Why Social Hierarchies Matter in…
Briefly Noted
Strange Rites:New Religions for a Godless Worldtara isabella burton publicaffairs books, $28 What follows traditional religion’s decline…
Already You Are Old
Already you are old, and I am too.Let’s join old age, embrace the time we’ve found,and make…
Ash
And in the end is all ash,the translation of our praiseto ruin, and to long daysand nights…
Divine Comedy
It is love that lamps illuminelove in rattled kettles’ steamstaccato love in car horns, squeaking brakeslove between…
Psalm to Our Lady Queen of the Angels
Let us sing to our city a new song,A song that remembers its name and its founders—Los…
