Theology
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Theology After Newton
The Historicity of Nature: Essays on Science and Theology by Wolfhart Pannenberg Templeton, 272 pages, $29.95 Wolfhart…
Paradise
I wonder what the counterpart / Of the patriot is in Heaven...
A Classic Case
History Lesson: A Race Odyssey by Mary Lefkowitz Yale University Press, 208 pages, $25 In History Lesson…
Orthodoxy at a Hundred
G. K. Chesterton’s most renowned book is a hundred years old. Orthodoxy was first published in London…
Wind River Justice
Alan riding his first horse from Big Sandy / to celebrate his thirty-seventh birthday: / his mare…
The Odyssey of the Odyssey
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey by Edith Hall Johns Hopkins University Press,…
Letters—November 2008
Terror & Tragedy In “Amis Amiss” (June/July 2008), Alan Jacobs asks, “When it is time to talk…
iPhones Have Consequences
In a Doonesbury cartoon of recent vintage, Zipper, nephew to the 1960s slacker Zonker Harris, sits in…
A Stern Warning to Canada
If you want peace...
At Lansallos
The remnant of an ancient Celtic cross / worn smooth by a millennium of weather / lies…
Singing to the Penguins at the Memphis Zoo
Even before we passed the bears (who sat / Like mourners in a church, their great brown…
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…
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
The rent is due, and a pelagic grief / stretches far beyond what the eye can see.…