Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Briefly Noted 11
Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. By Wesley J. Smith. Encounter. 219 pp. $25.95. The Brave…
Unreasonable Observers
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life by James Hitchcock Princeton University Press Vol. I: The…
Rome Diary
April 11: Remembering John Paul II There, on the catafalque only a few feet away, was what…
Offer Declined
The Future of Religion by Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 112 pp. $24.50 The…
Gardens of Good and Evil
If you are old enough to have taken a Western Civilization course when it was still a…
When East is West
In an epilogue to his 1998 book, Awakening the Buddha Within, Lama Surya Das, a popular American…
Aegean Story
Briefly, newspapers recite The facts about the fisherman Who for two months, day and night, Went out…
Remembering and Forgetting
The Public Square When the much-celebrated architect Philip Johnson died this year at age ninety-eight the obituaries…
The Legal Death of Terri Schiavo
Despite all the public outrage at the horror of an innocent woman being starved to death, despite…
The Bishops in Council
Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United…
To My Grandfather
You sailed four times before you could give up your native town for good and the stone…
April Letters
Laughing Matters I am gratified that much of my assessment of Kierkegaard’s humor is confirmed by a…
Jesus Christ Superfluous
When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today by Harvey Cox Houghton Mifflin. 338 pp. $26…
Choir-Loft Confession
“I Sing Because I’m Happy” and “How Can I Keep from Singing”” O anthems of my ancestors,…
Hot Spell
O sun, old alchemist, you’ve set us wrong. Heat grips the land; the ditch-cut where the stand…
