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To Uproot or To Plant
Christianity lives in the tension between its apocalyptic vision of life and its creational mandate to occupy.…
Leaving the House of Judaism
Janet Adelman (Blood Relations) devotes an interesting chapter to analyzing Lancelot’s departure from Shylock’s house, and his…
Gender, Sex, Economy
In his provocative essay on Gender, Ivan Illich describes a shift from “vernacular gender” to “social sex.”…
Shadow Work
Ivan Illich (Gender) points to the differences between the activities of a modern housewife and those of…
Medieval Gender
It’s tempting, Ivan Illich admits (Gender), to think that “gender” is tribal and primitive, and that “social…
David Jones
In a TLS essay on the Welsh poet David Jones, A.N. Wilson traces Jones’s poetic impulses back…
Video: McConnell on Tradition and the Constitution
Last week in New York, the St. John’s Center for Law and Religion launched the Tradition Project,…
Smile!
Matthew Hutson reports in The Atlantic about technical developments that will make it impossible to know when…
Running from Boundaryless Love
Born to Run is an anthem of escape, seemingly an exodus from the confinements of small-town America:…
Horror for Kids
Terrence Rafferty calls filmmaker Guillermo del Toro the “Master of Highbrow Horror” (The Atlantic). He traces del…
Unphilosophical Cosmopolitanism
In an essay on the notion of “cosmopolitanism,” Wayne Cristaudo presents Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy as…
Mister Bossy
I had a teacher in middle school named Mister Bossy. Yes, we made fun of his name.…
Unity and Uniformity
In various writings advocating efforts to promote the unity of the church, I haven’t always made clear…
Paedocommunion, the Gospel, and the Church, I
Should young children receive the Lord’s Supper? Should we practice paedo-communion? Before we address the question of…
Why Devout Muslims Are Not Comfortable Voting for a Woman
Like most American citizens, devout Muslims are puzzled about how to vote in this presidential race. Obviously,…
