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How God Fixes Things
The cry has come up from our national journalogians at the NYT and the Daily News: “God…
What We’ve Been Reading—12.4.15
Matthew Schmitz In a recent address in New York, Martin Mosebach, winner of the Georg Büchner Prize,…
First Links — 12.4.15
What We Fear When We Fear Terrorism Ross Douthat, New York Times Remembering the Soviet Union’s Disappeared…
Losing the Body
The Economist’s review of Thomas Lacqueur’s The Work of the Dead highlights the shifts in our funeral customs over…
Cultural Geography
In his forthcoming collection of essays, The Ways of the World, David Harvey observes that “it is impossible…
In the Fullness of Time
As Robert Jenson has argued, the big question of religion is the question of eternity: How is…
Hamlet in Society
Despite the distracting use of the opposition of of “authenticity” and “responsibility,” Terry Eagleton has some thoughtful…
Your Advent Playlist
Forget the War on Christmas. The real battle raging out there is the War on Advent. Rather…
Neither Sanguine Nor Resigned
Carl Trueman is right when he posts this morning that the inevitable collapse of the sexual revolution…
Internet Confessional
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned; it has been one day since my last confession. Three…
Not So Sanguine
Over at Public Discourse, Jeremy Neill has offered a well-argued, thoughtful, sober but optimistic perspective on the…
Hamlet Among Protestants and Catholics
Most readers and viewers of Hamlet take Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy as a meditation on suicide. In Hamlet,…
Rhetoric: Ancient, Modern, Postmodern
Rhetoric is an ancient art. It was one of the main courses of study in ancient schools,…
Jerusalem, Sennacherib, and Us
The story of Jerusalem’s deliverance from Sennacherib’s Assyrian army, told in both 2 Kings and Isaiah, is…
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar…
