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The Gold Virgin
What do the children of divorce know? Do they close their eyes at the moral messes in which they live, or do they look, listen, and learn? What does...
Cheap Joy
On Holy Wednesday this year, I attended a local Catholic book club meeting on The Book of Joy, a so-called guide to happiness built on a week of mostly...
Holy Madness
Surely somewhere in Emile Durkheim or Max Weber is a reflection on religiosity and March Madness. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament brings out the fanatic in every fan, and...
What They Knew Without Seeing
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Or, to put it more contemporarily, what has Shakespeare’s formation to do with the vitality of today’s Church? A seemingly obscure literary...
Hamlet the Confessor
Two millennia ago, a Jewish rabbi declared that he had the authority to forgive sins or “send away mistakes” and transferred that authority to his closest followers. An early...
The Bard’s Religion
A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion by david scott kastan oxford university press, 155 pages, $40.00 If Zeno were to write Shakespeare criticism, he might sound a little...
