Theology
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Saint Askew
St. Askew’s shoe Shall always undo The earth tips And he does too Singing he sighs As…
July
Who would eat An egg you fry On the sidewalk In July?
We Were Believers Once, and Young
A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, With “On My Religion” by John Rawls…
The Summer of 1683
The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft Basic, 368…
Briefly Noted 10-09
Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity by William Murchison Encounter, 215 pages, $25.95 The…
Foster Child
Everywhere she goes, he goes. She’s brought him here for Sunday tea. He’s been with me two…
A Prayer Book of One’s Own
There’s a buzz in the air in the Orthodox Jewish community, and it’s about the publication of…
The Moral Witness of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
With his passing a year ago—on August 3, 2008, at the age of eighty-nine—the world was obliged…
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ)
I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but…
April Letters
Remembering Richard John Neuhaus The April issue of First Things is a beautiful and moving tribute to…
Aug/Sep Letters
A Green Thought in a Green Shade Alan Jacobs’ critique of The Green Bible (“Blessed Are the…
Dhimmitude Deferred
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Christopher Caldwell Doubleday, 432 pages, $30 The title of Christopher…
Shades of Infallibility
Papal Infallibility: A Protestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical Issue by Mark E. Powell Eerdmans, 226 pages, $40…
A Room With a View
I once accused the young convert poet Robert Lowell of espousing Catholicism with all the marital fidelity…
That Nothing May Be Lost
This spring I was out of the country for a week. Attending Mass shortly after my return,…
