December 2005
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Our American Babylon
Once upon a time—it was the 1976 bicentennial of the American founding, to be precise—I wrote a…
The Secret of the Self
Consider the obituary column in your local newspaper—not the obituary of anyone famous but just an ordinary…
Almonds to Zhoof— The Year in Books
The era of the book is coming to a close. No one knows the day or hour,…
God on the Internet
Even diligent students of the papacy may be unfamiliar with the pontificates of Michael and Pius XIII.…
Jewish Babies
New Square is a small village in Rockland County, New York, less than an hour’s drive from…
Orphans by Design
“Orphan” is one of those words that seems old-fashioned to modern ears”a word that evokes abject poverty…
Scientific Orthodoxies
Back in the 1970s, when my wife Celeste was in the seventh grade at Our Lady of…
Who Would True Valour See?
John Brown—Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by david…
The Literary Bible
Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architecht of the Spiritual World by Robert D. Denham University of Virginia…
Persons and Rights
Who is My Neighbor? Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights by Thomas D. Williams The Catholic…
East of Eden
Fallen by David Maine St. Martin’s, 256, $23.95 The Perservationist by David Maine St. Martin’s, 240 pages,…
Strange Spirits
Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality By Leigh Eric Schmidt HarperSanFrancisco, 352 pages, $26.95 Where two…
78 Flavors
Next in line, we get the blues from Having too much choice to choose from. Later on,…
Advent Windows
Holy Holle, Mother Winter, Shakes her eider till it flutters, Till the ticking frees its feathers, Drifting,…
December
December, the month of that most holy day, which makes Christian even the falling snow. (In whispers,…
