Theology
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The Better Part of Valor
A would-be body-surfer, eight years old, he fell in with the ocean’s mood of calm, reviewing each…
Child of the Revolution
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey Knopf, 288 pages, $24.95 His Illegal Self is Peter Carey’s tenth…
Charity’s Gift
Pinioned here, I look downwards to see My mother weeping in unfettered grief Her heart transfixed by…
Briefly Noted 217
Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence by Alexandre Havard Scepter, 172 pages, $16.95 Augustine called it…
American Crust
We upper-crust must be discussed In deferential accents. We want not, waste, exhibit taste, Possess exquisite tax-sense.…
Shakespeare’s Religion
In 1613, at the end of his career, Shakespeare joined John Fletcher to dramatize the reign of…
A Marriage in Full
In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a letter from his prison cell in Nazi Germany to a young…
A Commonplace Book
Awhile back, I started keeping a commonplace book. Commonplace book is an odd phrase, perhaps, because what…
Jews as the Romans Saw Them
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by martin goodman knopf, 624 pages, $35 When I…
The Crescent and the Scimitar
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh…
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis
In Wladimir Solowjew’s History of the Antichrist, the eschatological enemy of the Redeemer recommended himself to believers,…
Listening to Benedict
That’s the main thing¯to listen to what he says. I expect the texts for the public events…
AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right
Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and…
Smelly Olde England
I lived, while in England, at a confluence—the intersection of a pedestrian lane, which led to three…
Letters—April 2008
The Moral Law Reading Robert George’s “Law and Moral Purpose” (January 2008), I found myself nodding in…
