Arts & Letters
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Quietist Controversy
François Fénelon: A Biography—the Apostle of Pure Love? by Peter Gorday Paraclete, 258 pages, $24.99 As is…
Love’s Translations
Song of Songs: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by paul j. griffiths brazos, 240 pages, $32.99…
Redeeming Places
Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today by craig g. bartholomew baker, 384 pages,…
Last Night As I Lay Sleeping
Last night as I lay sleeping, I dreamed”oh blessed art!” of fountain water leaping and flowing in…
Sin, Redemption, and Spider-Man
God so loved the world that he gave his only son. God so loved me that he…
An Inhumane Humanities Lecture
Established in 1972, the Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual…
Dreams of Heaven
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by john gray farrar, straus and…
In Praise of Good Bad Books
I had a fairly bookish childhood. I don’t mean that I was a sedentary youth; I spent…
Dogma’s Defender
Theological Tractates by erik peterson, edited and translated by michael j. hollerich stanford, 296 pages, $24.95 Germany’s…
After the Mighty Gods Depart
They do not always hear our special plea, the lame gods”Deaf-In-One-Ear, Old Hobbled-Knee, that sooty lug the…
Accidents
On the verge of the unthinkable, the iceberg turns unsinkable to the hull. The buoying force of…
A Woman in Full
The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de’ Mediciby elizabeth levhoughton…
The Day the Rain Began
Genesis 7:12 Today seemed just an ordinary day. The sun rose like an irritated eye; wives cooked…
Diversity
The opportunity for us To kick up dust and start a fuss Has so decreased in recent…
Nothing Lies
An atom’s 99.9% nothing at all. The world’s an empty place. Its solid shapes are objects we…
