Arts & Letters
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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…
Address to the Manger
Sleep, infant, sleep among the oxen and the sheep which kneel before your manger. Welcome to danger.…
Faith in a Time of Faithlessness
They are lovely, your orange slices and peignoirs, and especially that green cockatoo, but why, poet, limit…
Lutheran in Limbo
Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologianby carl e. braaten eerdmans, 210 pages, $18 Lutherans are…
While We’re At It
• Remember the alliance of atheists who offered to take care of your pets in the event…
Letters
THE UPWARD CURVE If readers agree with Joseph Bottum, as I do, that American print standards are…
The Apologists
The Flight of the Intellectuals by paul berman melville house, 304 pages, $26 Paul Berman’s 2003 book…
Why We Didn’t Overcome
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to…
Pullman Sleeper
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by philip pullman canongate, 256 pages, $24 Teenage sex…
The Seven Deadly Sins
Forget about the other six, says Pride. They’re only using you. Admittedly, Lust is a looker, but…
