December 2003
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2003 December Letters
Questions of Reform In “True and False Reform.” (September), Avery Cardinal Dulles displays his usual clarity and…
Coincidence & Conversion
When you grow up in a place like Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, seeing a Polish Capuchin monk is…
A Most Partial Historian
Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Volume III: Accommodations. By Maurice Cowling. Cambridge University Press. 766…
Retelling Genesis
And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years…
Establishing Free Exercise
If conservative and liberal church-state scholars agree on one thing, it is that the Supreme Court’s religious…
Johnny of the Cross
In the world of popular music, one generally becomes a “legend” only in death—as if death accomplishes…
A Bible for Everyone
One summer years ago, I attended a conference that met at Princeton Theological Seminary; we participants stayed…
Jobs and Babies
It seems that most people who write about the joys and challenges of childrearing today are parents…
Briefly Noted 58
Style and Faith: Essays. By Geoffrey Hill. Counterpoint. 218 pp. $25. This slim but dense collection of…
Seekers and Finders
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. by Paul Elie Farrar, Straus &…
The Reality of the Beautiful
Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue Yale University Press. 209 pp. $24.95 Several days after the massacre…
Pym Wins
The Book Against God by James Wood Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 257 pp. $24. James Wood is…
The Limits of Theory
Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications by Daniel N. Robinson Princeton University Press Praise and…
Summer’s End
Yesterday stealing from the sun dandelions lit the shaded path briefly. Now they’re gone. Hurry through faded…
