Arts & Letters

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Scoured or Skimmed? Alan Jacobs claims to have “scoured” the pages of Shadowplay in a vain search…

The Form of Speaking

Stephen M. Barr

The Language of God by francis s. collins free press, 304 pages, $26 “Today we are learning…

Miller: Limbo and the Will of God

Robert T. Miller

The International Theological Commission is pondering the fate of children who die unbaptized, with a document expected…

Hylden: An Evening at GTS

Jordan Hylden

Seeing as how I am a new Episcopalian and still learning about my church, I attended a…

Anderson: The Secret of Embyronic Stem Cells

Ryan T. Anderson

The truth about the technical challenges and scientific hurdles for embryonic stem-cell (ESC) therapies is finally getting…

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Jacques and Raïssa Maritain. by Jean-Luc Barré. Notre Dame University Press, 528 pages, $50. First published ten…

Rutler: Words and Reality

Fr. George Rutler

Lewis Carroll anticipated the word games that demagogues play when he had Humpty Dumpty say, “When I…

Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar

John Rose

It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…

Rose: String Theory and All That

John Rose

Depending on whom you ask, it’s either the holy grail of physics¯the prophesied Theory of Everything¯or a…

Anderson: The Parable of the Good Soccer Mom

Ryan T. Anderson

Democrats need to get religion, or so say political analysts in the wake of the 2004 election…

“The Incredibles,” “The Science of Sleep”

Frederica Mathewes-Green

“My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth.” I’m with you, Anthony . The P.D.Q.…

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The Wheaton from the Chaff As a Wheaton alumnus who has been received into the Catholic Church—and…

RJN: 6.8.06 Less than a year ago…

Richard John Neuhaus

Less than a year ago, on July 7, 2005, four bombs went off in the London underground,…

RJN: 6.7.06 It is getting the attention…

Richard John Neuhaus

It is getting the attention it deserves in avowedly conservative circles, but Ramesh Ponnuru’s fine book The…

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Rice That Springeth Green Cynthia Grenier’s review of Anne Rice’s novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt…