American Politics
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The Jewish Mission
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission…
Mixed Blessings
Thanksgiving Day, 2010 The turkey’s in the oven. My bare feet rest on the windowsill. A welcome…
The Genius of the Women Saints
This Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize seven new saints. His honorees include four women, two of…
While We’re At It – Pt. IV
• We all have a romantic image of monks patiently copying texts in their scriptoria, with the…
Human Unity Real and Imagined
Every epoch has its secular religion, a perverse imitation of Christianity that takes part of the Christian…
Rewriting the Social Contract
The social contract in America is coming undone, and it will be revised and rewritten in the…
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…
At Sea
We stream on color: blue, aquamarine, dove grey. To look straight down gives vertigo, but farther out…
Three Riddles by Saint Aldhelm
63 When bloody flooding killed the human race And brand-new oceans put man in his place, Except…
The Flimflam Theater
When I was a boy I had a friend named Dennis McCann Who was totally and utterly…
Home Not Alone
The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Katherine S.…
Evil Within and Without
Demonic Desires: “Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity by Ishay Rosen-Zvi University of…
Defending Religious Liberty
Notre Dame teaches physics and philosophy, and so does the University of Chicago. Both raise money, field…
The Holy Spirit Did Preside
A newly married layman and graduate student, I found myself in Rome in 1963 covering the second…
