Theology
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The Internet Novel Comes of Age
No One Is Talking About Thisby patricia lockwood riverhead, 224 pages, $25 Chosen Spirits by samit basusimon…
No Justice, No Republic
The Sarah Halimi case—a brutal anti-Semitic assassination followed by an ongoing denial of justice—may be construed as…
Ruth and the Long Embrace
In 1804, English painter George Dawe exhibited his painting “Naomi and Her Daughters” for the first time.…
Briefly Noted
Art and Faith:A Theology of Makingby makoto fujimura yale, 184 pages, $26 Fujimura’s Art and Faith meditates…
Friendship in Truth
I have had many friends in the course of my life, but only since growing older have I…
List for Confession
Avarice—Quite a bit.Lust—Not so much these days.Envy—I’ve never saidMuch in a rival’s praise.Pride can be kept in…
Omaha
I enjoyed a very pleasant though sadly short visit to my former hometown. It was mid-April. The weather…
On Creativity and Serving God
When it comes to creativity, some of us are of two minds. Important Jewish thinkers, including my…
Régis Debray, Radical Conservative
Looking back on his time as a Cuban-trained communist revolutionary, the French writer Régis Debray recalled that…
Tending the Borderlands
I shall search for a garden where I can retire, and renew my spirit during this time filled…
The Cross and the Machine
“Europeans didn’t only disinherit Aztecs and Incas. Continuously, since the sixteenth century, we have been disinheriting ourselves.”—John…
Truth, Reading, Decadence
After Harold Bloom died in October 2019, E. D. Hirsch told a story from the early 1960s,…
Of Mass and Masquerade
On May 10, the Irish government lifted its ban on public worship. Attendance is now limited to…
What Happens in Germany, Revisited
Writing on the quincentennial of the Reformation and its parallels with emerging problems in the twenty-first-century German…
A New Bishop For Hong Kong
In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI established a “day of prayer for the Church in China” on May…
