April 2006
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April Letters
Defining Davidson Down Christoph Cardinal Schönborn (“The Designs of Science,” January) writes that “modern science first excludes…
To Be a Christian College
In 1877 some concerned citizens of Wheaton, Illinois, decided that they needed to do something about the…
The Mad Scientists’ Club
The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…
Theology’s Continental Captivity
Last year, while London suffered under terror bombings and insurgency continued in Iraq, a local UCC minister…
Iraq: Then & Now
Even as history continues to unfold”and explode”in ancient Mesopotamia, the Iraq War has already proven itself the…
In Conformity to Christ
On November 29, 2005, the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome released an instruction concerning the admission…
Darwin in Dover, PA
While Christoph Cardinal Schönborn and Professor Stephen Barr were arguing over questions of evolution and teleology in…
Broken Promises
“Never forget what happened here!” John Paul II demanded in 1993 when he visited Albania ” where,…
Briefly Noted 4
Defending Human Dignity: John Paull II and Political Realism. By Derek Jeffreys. Brazos. 235 pp. $19.95. Derek…
Body and Soul
The eight-hundredth anniversary of the death in 1204 of Rabbi Moses the son of Rabbi Maimon the…
The Watch and Ward Society
A book should not be judged by its cover; nor, perhaps, should it be judged by its…
The Way of the Wicked
The Roots of Evilby john kekescornell university press, 261 pages, $29.95 Prowling Washington’s poorer neighborhoods some years…
What Hath God Wrought?
“And having food and raiment let us be therewith content . . . . For the love…
Song of the Soul that Takes Pleasure in Knowing God by Faith
How well I know the spring that feeds the torrent, though night has fallen! The spring runs…
Ancestral Tumulus
Daggers, broadswords, halberds, battle-axes, shields, helmets, scabbard parts and buckles, spearheads, manacles, necklaces, wine jars, war trumpets,…
Metaphysical Song
First principle, Being’s pure act, Infinite cause Of finite fact, Essential being, Beyond our sight, Without which,…
