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The Spirit of Timidity, and How Christians Pray the Psalms
The streets of New York are clergy-friendly. In my limited experience, more so than other world cities.…
Does Doubt Belong to Faith?
The recent publication of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., with its frank…
Canadian-Americans, The Civil War, Hillary Clinton and a Strange New Respect for Religion
It’s an odd thing about us transplanted Canadians. In truth, most of my siblings and I (there…
Sex and Mysticism
Advice given to tourists in Scotland is equally applicable to contemporary academia: “If you don’t like the…
The Florentine Enigma
During the summer of 1502, the young Republic of Florence appeared fated to die as quickly as…
God and Imaginary Numbers
Impossible, irrational, delusionary, absurd, untrustworthy, fictitious, imaginary: You can’t read much about religion today without encountering these…
Mother Teresa Remembered
The unfortunate publicity and distortions to the point of calumny that have surrounded the publication of the…
Policemen of the World
In the October issue of First Things (which hits newsstands today), I draw attention to the powerfully…
Land of Lincoln: A Review
In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…
The Malling of Mecca
It’s big. No, I mean really BIG. And I’m not talking about the Burj Dubai , which…
Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics
We live in a time of both danger and opportunity for the Catholic Church in the United…
Innocents Abroad
Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan Knopf, 527 pages, $30 “These Yankees are most disagreeable Fellows to have…
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
Culture Matters
Having accepted Thomas Sowell’s great thesis that differences among peoples commonly attributed to race really reflect culture,…
A Hatchet Job
We have come to rely on Alan Wolfe as just the sort of “expert” on religion who…
