Arts & Letters
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Nothing Lies
An atom’s 99.9% nothing at all. The world’s an empty place. Its solid shapes are objects we…
They Shall Beat Their Swords…
With my father’s Army ballpeen hammer I’d found down in the cellar, I kept banging on the…
A Gift
The boy comes to the back door of the parish, bearing he says, “A gift.” A crib,…
A Philosophy for the Powerful
Once animated by revolutionary ardor, our secular intellectuals have reached a dead end. Today they pen books…
Luminous Wisdom
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye:Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo by Dogen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi (multiple…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
Letters—November 2011
developing status Christopher Kaczor (“Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs,” August/September) echoes a fallacious argument now popular among pro-life…
Messianic Restraint
Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $35 n…
Letters—October 2011
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…
