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Books, Baseball, and Cool Papa Bell
Where were you thirty years ago, on Opening Day of the 1991 Major League Baseball season? I…
Sonnet 118
I leave my sixteenth year of sighsand head into my final onealthough it seems I’ve just begunexploring…
The Easter Explosion
Let me adapt to recent circumstances a thought-experiment theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar proposed decades ago: Imagine…
The Lesson of Leaven
About fifteen years ago, on the third or fourth day of Passover, some relatives took me and…
What We’ve Been Reading—March 2021
Mark BauerleinContributing Editor The man who is “absorbed” by the object that he is contemplating can be…
The Sixties Are Still With Us
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Alexander Riley joins the…
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A New Pastoral Problem
Last week, a pastor friend told me about a new problem he is facing in his congregation.…
Esther in America
The book of Esther, read during Purim, has a special place in American history. Though some have argued that…
Canceling Love in the Name of Love
These remarks were delivered at the Theopolis Epiphany Feast, held in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 29, 2021.…
When Amazon Erased My Book
My book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was released exactly three years ago.…
Somebody Needs To Be Dad
For Catholics, the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) stands as the key event of the last 60 years.…
The Gospel According to John and Mary
Mary’s Voice in the Gospel According to John:A New Translation with Commentaryby michael pakalukgateway editions, 354 pages,…
The Gratuitous Abundance of Books
Now and then when I am absorbed in lists of forthcoming books, whether in the delicious catalogues…
A Conspiracy of Goodness
Pierre Sauvage was 18 years old when he discovered that he was Jewish and that he had…
