Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Singing to the Penguins at the Memphis Zoo
Even before we passed the bears (who sat Like mourners in a church, their great brown paws…
What We Can’t Not Know
That April 8, 1966, cover of Time magazine became something of a cultural marker. It was completely…
The Great Hall
You need only have noticed someone once, and he will have an entree to your dreams for…
The End of the Road
The road dominates the American imagination, from the Oregon Trail to Route 66. That strange, in-between time…
From a Line in a Novel
“Why was this splendid monster given life?” “Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration The rent is due, and…
Reading, Writing, and Reformation
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents by James Simpson Harvard University, Press368 pages, $27.95…
Is Mormonism Christian?
Bruce D. Porter Mormonism has been much in the news over the past year. The presidential campaign…
Augustine’s Confessions, 10.27.38
Wrongly thinking that beauty lay without, blindly I cast about. How late did I begin to realize…
Briefly Noted 220
The Satires of Horace translated by A.M. Juster University of Pennsylvania Press, 160 pages, $34.95 Satire is…
What Lambeth Wrought
As the Anglican bishop Stephen Neill put it fifty years ago, “The first and burning question is…
Ain’t Nothing But a Meanness in This World
You’ll find here Truman Capote, and James Thurber, and Dorothy Killgallen, and “the queen of true crime,”…
A Lesson in Deep Ecology
Deep ecology, a movement launched by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972, may be contrasted to…
There Will Be Blood
“Can everything around here be got?” oil man Daniel Plainview asks. “Sure” is the reply. And so…
That Evangelical Manifesto
The Public Square It was rolled out at the National Press Club on May 7 with the…
Thy Canonized Bones
The Quest For Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome by Joseph Pearce Ignatius,…
