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When the Radio Breaks
Signals: New and Collected Storiesby tim gautreauxknopf, 384 pages, $26.95 For many years Tim Gautreaux has written…
A Great Mystery
It is a great mystery. Adam is created from the ground, as are the animals. Unlike the…
God as Artist, Artist as God
In Hand to Hand, a meditation on “listening to the work of art,” Jean-Louis Chretien traces the…
The Church of God in Christ Responds to Catholic Scholars
Dear Professor George, I want to express in the strongest possible terms my profound appreciation for the…
Divine Double-Talk
Day 3 of the creation week was unique, and a turning point in the creation week. When…
Ask Not: On Gifts and Debts
When John F. Kennedy delivered one of the most significant lines in the history of presidential inaugural…
Renewal and Temple Personnel
In a 1991 article in the Journal of Biblical Literature, John H. Wright asks what role 1…
Subsystemic Conflict
Irene Dingel’s contribution to Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture, 1550-1675 examines the role of controversy in the formation of…
Soap and Oprah
Last week I stumbled across the document issued recently by the Roman Catholic bishops of Malta. It…
Ecumenism in the Sixteenth Century
During the early decades of the Reformation, there were efforts on all sides to reconcile Reformers and…
What We’ve Been Reading—2.3.17
Elliot Milco: My reading habits have been changing lately. Early in the winter I picked up and…
Gorsuch and the Washington Script
A familiar Washington script exists for Republican Supreme Court nominations. Once the president announces his choice, Democrats…
Vetting the Executive Order
Robert P. George: Angela Wu Howard is a leading international human rights lawyer and activist with whom…
Persecution in Nigeria
Douglas Murray reports at The Spectator on the ongoing and largely ignored persecution of Christian villages in…
Disenchantment and Anthropomorphism
At the beginning of their Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno define Enlightenment in terms…