December 2006
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Correspondence
Scoured or Skimmed? Alan Jacobs claims to have “scoured” the pages of Shadowplay in a vain search…
Miniatures, 1996-99
In Twilight I well remember the very widespread custom, back in the South, of “twilighting.” Carried over…
Christmas in New York
There was a woman screaming on Park Avenue, flecks of saliva spraying from her mouth as she…
The Witness of Dietrich von Hildebrand
Now that the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project has been founded with a view to republishing the…
The Form of Speaking
The Language of God by francis s. collins free press, 304 pages, $26 “Today we are learning…
Fighting the Good Fight
God’s War: A New History of the Crusades by christopher tyerman belknap, 1,040 pages, $35 Not too…
The Occidental Difference
What Is the West? by Philippe Nemo Duquesne University Press, 155 pages, $18.95 Back in the late…
The Needle’s Eye
The Greek Praise of Poverty: Origins of Ancient Cynicism by William D. Desmond University of Notre Dame…
Briefly Noted 176
Ambrose’s Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man by Marcia L. Colish University of Notre Dame Press, 208…
Poetry
Nine Bells God in His mercy gave the heavens as a clock to sailors he would save.Driven…
I Went In, I Knew Not Where
I went in, I knew not where and stayed, not knowing, but going past the boundaries of…
Coplas: In Pursuit
In pursuit of amatory adventure, hope bid me fly and I rose so high, so hig that…
