October 2010
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by eric metaxas thomas nelson, 591 pages, $29.99 “Silence in the face…
Death Orders by Anna Geifman
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
Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant by alan jacobs eerdmans, 154 pages, $18 Wayfaring, Jacobs’ new collection of…
Letters
THE UPWARD CURVE If readers agree with Joseph Bottum, as I do, that American print standards are…
A Chapel Takes Flight
Perched on a dramatic site along the Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains, the United States Air…
Holy War Over Ground Zero
There, the sign that says “Sharia,” the hand-drawn letters dribbling down in streaks as though they were…
Rescuing Evil
At the close of the final 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship seminar series in Cambridge this June, after…
Torah and Incarnation
How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has…
Fired, in a Crowded Theater
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
Nine years ago, the White House announced and implemented the first-ever federal funding policy for stem-cell research.…
Fighting for Life
One cold, wet day in San Jose, California, I was stuck inside my childhood home, looking for…
Fearful Symmetries
Since the time of Newton, science has advanced by a strategy rightly called “reductionism.” This method, which…
The Keynes Conundrum
The most practical man of business is usually the slave of a defunct economist, John Maynard Keynes…
After the Storm
When the storm hit, Aesha was living in a lovely apartment atop a law firm just off…
Lutheran in Limbo
Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologianby carl e. braaten eerdmans, 210 pages, $18 Lutherans are…
A New Song
The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years by christopher page yale, 692 pages, $45…
The Lawful Truth
Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law by hadley arkes cambridge, 280 pages,…
Dim and Dimiter
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
The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy?…
Psalm 51
to the choirmaster: a psalm of David, when Nattan the prophet came to him, after he had…
A Crack of Light
Lyric maneuvers through a narrow space, a blade of light squeezed under a dark door, hence more…
Faith in a Time of Faithlessness
They are lovely, your orange slices and peignoirs, and especially that green cockatoo, but why, poet, limit…
Psalm 23
a psalm of David 01: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 02: He lays…