Theology
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What Is To Be Learned From “The Church in Socialism”
The Public Square At Boston University’s Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, headed by sociologist Peter…
The Newtape File II
Dear Nephew, my hellborn one, Ah, how I delight in writing you as my esteemed Uncle, Screwtape,…
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal
In Washington, where he was to give the eighteenth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 3,…
Picture Perfect: The Politics of Prenatal Testing
During the past two decades, prenatal screening for fetal defects has become a standard part of nearly…
Women, Ordination, and Angels
When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the…
Momento Mori
What do the living know about the dead? I was called upon to wonder when the well-meaning…
Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline
America’s so-called mainline Protestant churches aren’t what they used to be. For generations on end, the Methodists,…
Nihilism and the End of Law
When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals…
Other Plans: Journal of an Illness
I Ihad spent most of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working through a stack of…
About That Stolen Moment
“. . . saw little of note except. . . fortunately the Duomo was on that walk.…
Salt
Too often Truth is out of favor Softened To a fault Yet, I hold fast To Christ—the…
The Other Okies
Rising in the West by dan morgan knopf, 532 pages, $25 Just when you thought it was…
Earthworm
Seven meters an hour, top speed, pulling closer the edge of asphalt you cannot see. Mizzling rain…
Assassins of a Lesser God
Jesus: A Life by A. N. Wilson Norton, 269 pages, $22.95 Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal…
Fighting on Three Fronts
Jewish Polemics by arthur hertzberg columbia university press, 259 pages, $27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of…
