September 2020
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Letters
God’s Providence After reading Douglas Farrow’s “The Secret of the Saeculum” (May), I found myself unsure of…
From Sirens to Song
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
It is one thing to talk about the Resurrection. It is quite another to see the Easter…
Solitary Prayer
It may seem odd to outsiders that in the middle of the last century, seating arrangements in…
My Time in Prison
There is a lot of goodness in prisons. At times, I am sure, prisons may be hell…
Cheever’s God
Readers of John Cheever’s stories, most of which appeared in the New Yorker before being collected in…
Bostock
The Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which incorporates sexual orientation and gender identity into…
Christian Democracy
In the early 1950s, the European Union as we know it did not exist, but a process…
St. John Paul II: A Centenary Reflection
On May 18, 1920, a third child and second son was born to a retired Polish army…
Why I Am a Baptist
Desiderius Erasmus, incredulous and finally exasperated in his debates with Martin Luther, once nicknamed the great Reformer…
O’Connor and Race
Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connorby angela alaimo o’donnell fordham, 192 pages, $30 In 1974, ten years…
The Mirrors and the Smoke
The Mirror and the Lightby hilary mantel henry holt, 784 pages, $30 The arrival of this final…
Secularism as Sexism
Sex and Secularismby joan wallach scott princeton, 240 pages, $27.95 While traveling in Spain about twenty years…
On the Origins of Specious Myths
The War That Never Was: Evolution and Christian Theologyby kenneth w. kemp cascade, 234 pages, $28 Conventional…
The night my friend confessed her sins over the phone
She told me that she wanted to be holyBut everything she saidSounded like she wanted to be…
By That Heart Known
The young man in his cell Receives his guestWho all his heart should tell And…
Snow Moon Over Singer Island
Black velvet darkness, tufts of shredded clouds heading slow-ly up the coast, the lamp-like February snow moon…
St. Peter’s Square
Columns rooted like treeswreathe the square beneatha turquoise-splattered sky.The fountains, given the weather,adorn their hats with a…
Inniswood in September
The forest still is rich, if not as green,As flecks of gold and umber decorateThe canopy, and…