April 2007
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April 2007 Letters
The Truth About Altruism In his review of The Language of God (December 2006), Stephen Barr seems…
Christ Without Culture
To look at the big picture of the relationship between Christ and culture is, at the beginning…
Reasonable Science, Reasonable Faith
To the second edition of his Principia Mathematica , published in 1713, Isaac Newton appended what he…
Just War and Iraq Wars
The first phase of the Iraq Wars came to a dramatic”and ominously prophetic”denouement on that heady day…
The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe
Lots of novel readers—from the highest brow to the lowest—nod politely when the science-fiction writer Gene Wolfe…
A University of a Particular Kind
Valparaiso University had an inestimable part in shaping my understanding of the Church and its mission in…
Schooling at Home
One morning, as the four children and I prepared to start the school day, I consulted the…
New Theology, Old Economics
After years spent trapped in the academic equivalent of a singles bar, eagerly courting any discipline, no…
Thoroughly Modern Mommy
Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic…
The Idol State
Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh HarperCollins, 557 pages, $27.95 One of Britain’s leading and most popular historians,…
Deadening Pain
The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain by Thomas Dormandy Yale University Press, 560 pages, $35…
A Canterbury Tale
Grace and Necessity by Rowan Williams Continuum, 144 pages, $14.95 (paper) The election of Rowan Williams as…
Illiberal Liberalism
Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate by Ronald Dworkin Princeton University Press, 192…
Briefly Noted 179
My Life With the Saints by James Martin, S.J. Loyola Press, 411 pages, $22.95 An account of…
The Argument
Our priest exulted, “How wonderful His ways,” then climbed his pulpit’s Calvary. The tide, lit by the…
Niagara
How slowly the majestic river flows, deceptive in its undulating roll; for suddenly it loses all control,…
Of Metaphor in Heaven
No intimations, fables, puppet shows; No need for parables: up there one sees Reality; good books stay…
