Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
My Women’s Studies Seminar
When I started graduate school in English in the early 90s, I thought that a certificate in…
Natural Rights, The Imago Dei, and the Moral Economy of Sex
Remarks prepared for “Human Rights and the Sexualization of Culture,” the Fourth Annual Symposium of the Center for…
With the Bath Water
When data started to accumulate, we didn’t think the end would be so tragic. Facts were such…
Gentler
Men and women should be gentler with one another; what was it my godmother used to say?…
E-book Momentum Slowing Down
Two weeks ago, I reported on a poll by Scholastic demonstrating the importance of parents reading aloud…
Catholicism Before and After 1963
In trying to understand the extraordinary changes the Catholic Church underwent in the middle of the twentieth…
The Theology of Patti Smith
Patti Smith is known as the “godmother of punk,” but she always had higher goals than trying…
Picturing Mary
The new exhibit at Washington D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother,…
The Only Creatures Who Disobey God
Yesterday I took a glorious walk with my wife on one of the ridges of the Appalachian…
Epiphany
Each year I shroud them in their bubble wrap, The kings next to the shepherds and their…
A Teacher’s Guide to Discussing Religion in the Classroom
While I was attending a professional development workshop for nearly two-hundred teachers several weeks ago, a particularly…
Best Books (Not) of 2014
Many excellent books were published in 2014, but I did not read any of them. (My friend…
My Year in Reading
Every December since my college days a few friends and I have started an email thread to…
Atticus Finch in a Skirt
Harper Lee, now age eighty-eight and long out of the public eye, is the legendarily mysterious author…
Sixty-Two
Not fit enough to wander the wild woods or separate my wouldn’ts from my shoulds, what can…
