Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters
doubting thomas on lying Janet E. Smith is to be commended for the deference she shows St.…
The Religious Antidote
Imagine that a systematic review of the sociology literature found that, in 247 of 273 relevant studies,…
The Ballroom of Heaven
As a Boy Scout, Dad decoded The dit-dit-dahs of Morse, the swashed flags Of semaphore, bugled “Taps.”…
Tongued Fire
Tender gift of lifting one’s hands, understanding there’s a force enforcing that promise sprung from a distant…
Elective Antipathies
Simone Weil by Palle Yourgrau Reaktion Books, 189 pages, $16.95, paper n Simone Weil continues to fascinate.…
The Canonization
Rome 17 October 2010 Mary MacKillop, born 1842, what are the clergy giving you on my birthday,…
Can We Know What We Know?
Mathematics and Religion: Our Languages of Sign and Symbol by Javier Leach Templeton, 188 pages, $19.95 n…
Newman’s Ideal University
Imagine you’ve just read Plato’s Republic and then—conscientious citizen that you’ve now become—you enter a Chicago voting…
Drought Breaker
Two years of drought seem broken by a deluge that would be the wrath of God were…
Outings
If you don’t have it in your own backyard, go find it somewhere else. Outings are good…
A Review of Every Riven Thing
Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 93 pages, $24 n Christian Wiman is…
Letters
Natural Law, Franckly Speaking Matthew Franck has been a friend, and I know he was seeking to…
Giotto’s Epiphany
Who before Giotto thought to remove the king’s crown— this first from the earth’s kingdoms come to…
Christianity Comes to Northumbria
According to England’s first historian, the Venerable Bede, King Edwin of seventh-century Northumbria pondered the question of…
Long Live the King
Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611–2011 by gordon campbell oxford, 256 pages, $24.95 Pen…
