American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
My First Ordination
My first date with the sweet, wild woman who eventually married me was as follows: We drove…
Late Planting Il.
Two hundred miles I sojourned yesterday to see one tractor and its drill …
Our Failed Religious Freedom Policy
The religious freedom policy mandated by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act has now been in operation…
Triplicity
Infinity requires us to count to three, our calculus and three-step proof. Dust cubed is dust: The…
Anchorite
It would seem, from the sound of it, slang ?In Her Majesty’s Navy, say, circa ?Trafalgar”the deckhand…
Monuments
You’re with us still, your names engraved in stone, ?Inscribed in bronze, recited every May. ?Fresh flowers”mums,…
Our Lady of Wheaton
Mary, it seems, is a hot Evangelical topic. As a new professor at Wheaton College, I proposed…
No Honor
I stole an apple, ripe and red, ?hanging on my neighbor’s tree. ?“He’ll never miss just one,”…
A Summer Idyll
We’re superannuated now, no doubt. Impossible to overlook the facts: age blotches skin, puts muscle tone to…
Torture and Terror
The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror by Paul Lauritzen Georgetown, 208 pages,…
War on the Weak
War on the Weak We’re in the midst of a war on the weak. And I don’t…
Church as Sacrament
Evangelical Catholicism:Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church by george weigel Basic, 304 pages, $27.99 In his bracing…
Faith in Fiction
I’m sick of Flannery O’Connor. I’m also sick of Walker Percy, G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R.…
The Halakhah of Jesus’ Trial
The question of who is responsible for the death of Jesus has a long and vexatious history,…
After the Ascension
Ascension Thursday: gone again. My usual panic every year Sets in as the Easter season ends; I’d…
