Arts & Letters
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A Nation of Valjeans
Jean Valjean was found guilty: The terms of the penal code were explicit. In our civilization there…
At the Church of the Nativity
Upstanding persons surely find it odd, / The way these pilgrims crawl to Bethlehem. / How baffling…
Japanese Maple in January
All spring she brushed aside my arguments / that it was cheaper and would make more sense...
The Future of Marriage
Last summer, billionaire hedge fund manager and major Republican donor Paul Singer put up $1 million to…
The New Secular Moral Majority
A recent report from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life tells us that…
Instructions for Climbing and Descending
Good foot goes to heaven; bad foot goes to hell. / When every step torments and pain…
Letters—December 2012
Reason and Revelation There is a deep divide between Jonathan Rauch’s belief that marriage is a malleable…
The Glory and Decline of Bread
Sliced bread (sic) / a centimeter thick / staling on forty surfaces...
The Song of the Black Potatoes
A work such as this was never from God: / poor people evicted to wander the road...
Final Reward
St. Peter stands at the Heavenly Gates? / enrolling a new admission. / “Reporting for duty, sir,”…
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…
Last Night As I Lay Sleeping
Last night as I lay sleeping, / I dreamed”oh blessed art!” / of fountain water leaping...
Redeeming Places
Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today by craig g. bartholomew baker, 384 pages,…
Sin, Redemption, and Spider-Man
God so loved the world that he gave his only son. God so loved me that he…
