Theology
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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
This essay is adapted from the eighteenth annual Erasmus Lecture, which was delivered in New York City…
To My Grandfather
You sailed four times before you could / give up your native town for good / and…
Letters—April 2005
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”...
Hot Spell
O sun, old alchemist, you’ve set us wrong. / Heat grips the land; the ditch-cut where the…
Letters—March 2005
A Moral Moment Missed? Richard John Neuhaus’ “Internationalisms” (Public Square, December 2004) fails to discuss the current…
Briefly Noted 8
An Examined Faith: The Grace of Self-Doubt By James M. Gustafson Fortress. 119 pp. $15 paper. America’s…
The Patriarchal Bargain
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands by W. Bradford Wilcox University of Chicago…
Secularization Doesn’t Just Happen
“As society became more modern, it became more secular.” That sentence has about it a certain “of…
To Fast Again
The renewal inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council sprang in large part from the liberating discovery of…
Talking to Lord Newborough
I’d perch beside your gravestone years ago, / a boy who thought you old at forty-three. ...
When Worlds Collide
Snow by Orhan Pamuk Knopf. 426 pp. $26. Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11,…
