Theology
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Icarus
If no one on the ground or ocean was injured when he turned to a noun what…
Amiable Atheism
In its marketing campaign, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible was presented as something akin to the…
Letters—December 2011
Tradent and Traitor I am disappointed that my former colleague Leroy Huizenga wrote and that First Things…
With What Right and What Justice?
Five hundred years ago this Advent, a Dominican friar named Antonio de Montesino delivered a sermon haranguing…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
On Literature and the Life of Torah
It was not inevitable that I would come to read Colm Tóibín. I had resisted putting him…
Briefly Noted
Julian of Norwich, Theologian by Denys Turner Yale, 262 pages, $40 n The fourteenth-century anchorite Julian of…
At a Priest’s Grave
Bare trees under a requiem of clouds. Snow. Over the ground a gaggle of geese Hustles across…
Little Testament
Sure as that first command which strung the light like thread onto a loom to stitch the…
Farewell, Mr. Wizard
I conjure NBC in black-and-white. You drop dry ice in water; fog is rising. You sell us…
The Islamic Case for Religious Liberty
The words of the Qur’an and hadith contain rich resources for supporting the democratic order. If Muslims…
At the Recital
Word trickled down the aisle that he had died. My first response: how did they even know?…
Is Purgatory Biblical?
Nearly a decade ago Jerry Walls wrote an article for this magazine (“Purgatory for Everyone”) in which…
Restoring The Words
Two workers at the Ministry of Truth, Smith and Syme, sit at a table in an underground…
Reading the Gospels with Benedict XVI
A few days after Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, a distinguished Lutheran theologian happened to meet…
