October 2012
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letters
God will Judge After reading Daniel Philpott’s “Peace After Genocide” (June/July), I want to offer a few…
Brilliantly Bad Books
Best to begin in medias res, says Horace, so let me start with two exemplary excerpts from…
Southern Baptists’s Long Journey
On June 19, 2012, the Reverend Fred Luter was elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention,…
Honest Sex Science
Some people can change their sexual orientation with the help of therapy. So said Robert Spitzer—“considered by…
A Mandate to Disobey
The Affordable Care Act mandates that employers offer and individuals buy insurance that provides free contraceptives, abortion-inducing…
Thirteen Theses on Marriage
Thirteen theses in defense of so-called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic…
2012 Supreme Court Roundup
Students in my constitutional law course are usually surprised, and often skeptical, when I propose that the…
Rewriting the Social Contract
The social contract in America is coming undone, and it will be revised and rewritten in the…
The Biblical Case for Limited Government
The writings of Plato and Aristotle are often described as works of reason, as opposed to the…
Pious Perversions
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Free Press, 352 pages, $26…
Quietist Controversy
François Fénelon: A Biography—the Apostle of Pure Love? by Peter Gorday Paraclete, 258 pages, $24.99 As is…
Born-Again Babies
Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873–1973? by Allan Carlson Transaction, 172 pages, $29.95 Seeing our…
Briefly Noted
Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century by Mark Tooley Bristol House, 406 pages, $27.95 Perhaps Mark…
Everyman’s Poet
Pity the Beautiful by Dana Gioia Graywolf, 80 pages, $15 Dana Gioia is one of those poets…
Defining Jesus
Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine by Khaled Anatolios Baker Academic, 400 pages, $39.99…
The Lawrence Tree
Outside Taos, New Mexico The topknot turned. Light struck the needled floor. The darts of sunlight found…
The Song of the Black Potatoes
“People sink,” wrote Mr. Bishop; “they have no stamina left, they say ‘It is the will of…
Final Reward
St. Peter stands at the Heavenly Gates? enrolling a new admission. “Reporting for duty, sir,” Mike Clancy…
At Sea
We stream on color: blue, aquamarine, dove grey. To look straight down gives vertigo, but farther out…
