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Opinion

Letters

Various

God’s Providence After reading Douglas Farrow’s “The Secret of the Saeculum” (May), I found myself unsure of…

From Sirens to Song

L. S. Dugdale

At first, I didn’t notice the sirens. As a medical doctor, I’d grown used to electronic distress…

Children’s Books and the Christian Story

Sally Thomas

It is one thing to talk about the Resurrection. It is quite another to see the Easter…

Solitary Prayer

Shalom Carmy

It may seem odd to outsiders that in the middle of the last century, seating arrangements in…

My Time in Prison

George Cardinal Pell

There is a lot of goodness in prisons. At times, I am sure, prisons may be hell…

Cheever’s God

Matthew Schmitz

Readers of John Cheever’s stories, most of which appeared in the New Yorker before being collected in…

Essays

Bostock

R. R. Reno

The Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which incorporates sexual orientation and gender identity into…

Christian Democracy

Michel Gurfinkiel

In the early 1950s, the European Union as we know it did not exist, but a process…

St. John Paul II: A Centenary Reflection

George Weigel

On May 18, 1920, a third child and second son was born to a retired Polish army…

Why I Am a Baptist

R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Desiderius Erasmus, incredulous and finally exasperated in his debates with Martin Luther, once nicknamed the great Reformer…

Reviews

O’Connor and Race

Jessica Hooten Wilson

Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connorby angela alaimo o’donnell fordham, 192 pages, $30 In 1974, ten years…

The Mirrors and the Smoke

Richard Rex

The Mirror and the Lightby hilary mantel henry holt, 784 pages, $30 The arrival of this final…

Secularism as Sexism

Grant Kaplan

Sex and Secularismby joan wallach scott princeton, 240 pages, $27.95 While traveling in Spain about twenty years…

On the Origins of Specious Myths

Stephen M. Barr

The War That Never Was: Evolution and Christian Theologyby kenneth w. kemp cascade, 234 pages, $28 Conventional…

Poetry

The night my friend confessed her sins over the phone

Jessica Hooten Wilson

She told me that she wanted to be holyBut everything she saidSounded like she wanted to be…

By That Heart Known

James Matthew Wilson

The young man in his cell     Receives his guestWho all his heart should tell     And…

Snow Moon Over Singer Island

Paul Mariani

Black velvet darkness, tufts of shredded clouds heading slow-ly up the coast, the lamp-like February snow moon…

St. Peter’s Square

Marc Alan Di Martino

Columns rooted like treeswreathe the square beneatha turquoise-splattered sky.The fountains, given the weather,adorn their hats with a…

Inniswood in September

Daniel Jabe

The forest still is rich, if not as green,As flecks of gold and umber decorateThe canopy, and…