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Opinion

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas

Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. Cap.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by eric metaxas thomas nelson, 591 pages, $29.99 “Silence in the face…

Death Orders by Anna Geifman

David P. Goldman

Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia by anna geifman praeger, 229 pages, $34.95…

Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant by Alan Jacobs

Kevin Staley-Joyce

Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant by alan jacobs eerdmans, 154 pages, $18 Wayfaring, Jacobs’ new collection of…

Letters

Various

THE UPWARD CURVE If readers agree with Joseph Bottum, as I do, that American print standards are…

Essays

A Chapel Takes Flight

Robert Bruegmann

Perched on a dramatic site along the Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains, the United States Air…

Holy War Over Ground Zero

Joseph Bottum

There, the sign that says “Sharia,” the hand-drawn letters dribbling down in streaks as though they were…

Rescuing Evil

Ron Rosenbaum

At the close of the final 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship seminar series in Cambridge this June, after…

Torah and Incarnation

Meir Y. Soloveichik

How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has…

Fired, in a Crowded Theater

Meghan Duke

Kenneth Howell felt relaxed as he walked across the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,…

Human Embryos in the Age of Obama

Neuhaus Colloquium

Nine years ago, the White House announced and implemented the first-ever federal funding policy for stem-cell research.…

Fighting for Life

Lila Rose

One cold, wet day in San Jose, California, I was stuck inside my childhood home, looking for…

Fearful Symmetries

Stephen M. Barr

Since the time of Newton, science has advanced by a strategy rightly called “reductionism.” This method, which…

The Keynes Conundrum

David P. Goldman

The most practical man of business is usually the slave of a defunct economist, John Maynard Keynes…

After the Storm

Natasha Trethewey

When the storm hit, Aesha was living in a lovely apartment atop a law firm just off…

Reviews

Lutheran in Limbo

James Nuechterlein

Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologianby carl e. braaten eerdmans, 210 pages, $18 Lutherans are…

A New Song

Robert Louis Wilken

The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years by christopher page yale, 692 pages, $45…

The Lawful Truth

Matthew J. Franck

Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law by hadley arkes cambridge, 280 pages,…

Dim and Dimiter

Thomas S. Hibbs

Dimiter by william peter blatty forge, 304 pages, $24.99 The Exorcist—as William Peter Blatty, the now eighty-two-year-old…

A Pope for All Seasons

Don J. Briel

The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy?…

Poetry

Psalm 51

Alan Sullivan

to the choirmaster: a psalm of David, when Nattan the prophet came to him, after he had…

A Crack of Light

Rachel Hadas

Lyric maneuvers through a narrow space, a blade of light squeezed under a dark door, hence more…

Faith in a Time of Faithlessness

Losana Boyd

They are lovely, your orange slices and peignoirs, and especially that green cockatoo, but why, poet, limit…

Psalm 23

Alan Sullivan

a psalm of David 01: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 02: He lays…