September 2006
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Correspondence
The Wheaton from the Chaff As a Wheaton alumnus who has been received into the Catholic Church—and…
The Code Breakers
A few years ago, I wrote an essay in praise of the Harry Potter books that yielded…
Southern Baptists After the Revolution
All ecclesiastical revolutions eventually run out of steam. New concerns emerge, and different leaders come to the…
Behind the Veil
The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi University of Minnesota Press, 229 pages, $20 Journey of…
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews edited by jonathan cottwenner, 464 pages, $23.95 No matter how many albums…
For the Secular
Christianity and the Secular by Robert A. Markus. University of Notre Dame Press, 99 pages, $15. In…
Life Unworthy of Life
A Concise History of Euthanasia by Ian Dowbiggin. Rowan and Littlefield, 176 pages, $22.95 To read Ian…
Briefly Noted 85
A Little History of the World. by E.H. Gombrich. Yale Univ. Press, 284 pages, $25. In 1935,…
Person, Charism, and the Legionaries of Christ
This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with the approval of the…
Bonhoeffer Today
Totalitarian movements, such as National Socialism, seek to reorganize the entirety of human life. Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer,…
And You Were (Are) There
To have lived in the Athens of Socrates, the Rome of Augustus, the Christendom of Charlemagne, or…
While We’re At It
• Eccentricities, and downright craziness, in judicial rulings on church-state questions are nothing new. One is sometimes…
Checks, Balances, and Bishops
Talk about revolutions and semi-revolutionary changes in the Catholic Church has been a commonplace since the Second…
Poetry
Nothing New Prophets foretell And priests atone And where men dwell Their works are known How good…
Songs of the Soul in Intimate Amorous Communion with God
O love, you living flame who wound with tender fire my very soul, down to its depths…
