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All Too Human
Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $24.95 Chesterton said of original sin that it “is the only part of Christian theology that can really...
The Saints of John Paul II
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Seeking Signs and Wonders
The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan Atlantic Monthly, 448 pages, $25 Few things rankle the modern mind more than religious apparitions. See a ghost, and you may raise a...
The Love of Saint Thérèse
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In Defense of Jabez
“Read not the times, read the eternities,” said Henry David Thoreau. It isn’t often that the two realms intersect, but they have this year”and not only in the New...
The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales
There’s no escaping the Brothers Grimm. Their masterwork, Kinder und Hausmarchen (1812-1822), usually translated as Grimm’s Fairy Tales, still reigns unchallenged as the greatest folk tale collection of them...
A Century in Books
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A Paradoxical Genius
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The Strange Shipwreck of Robinson Crusoe
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Dear James
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A Peculiar Little Test
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