December 2013

How to Limit Government
How to Limit Government n The United States is no more likely to become Europe than China…
T. F. Torrance and the Latin Heresy
Most noted for his work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted…
Evangelical Retreat?
Growing up in a Southern Baptist church in the 1970s and ’80s, I heard quite a bit…
History’s Most Powerful Rabbi
On October 7, some eight hundred thousand people, about 10 percent of Israel’s population and roughly 13…
Letters
Work–Life Imbalance n I agree with Elizabeth Corey (“No Happy Harmony,” October) that there will always be…
The Naked College Quad
Gray and magisterial, squarely planted in the heart of campus, Bowdoin’s chapel keeps watch over all who…
These Fragments Have I Shored
Some years ago, when I was teaching in a respected department in a prestigious university in one…
Jesus the Muslim Hippie
Many Christians and other non-Muslims who want to understand the Christ of Islam turn to the Qur’an,…
Democracy’s Revenge
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by john lucacs harvard, 240 pages, $24.95 n In the…
Diapers and Diplomas
Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by mary ann mason, nicholas h. wolfinger,…
Love’s Scandal
God’s Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People by jerome…
Time’s on Our Side
The Illusion of History: Time and the Radical Political Imagination by andrew r. russ catholic university of…
Briefly Noted
Contemplative Provocations: Brief, Concentrated Observations on Aspects of a Life with God by fr. donald haggerty ignatius,…
Prayer
It’s not too late, Dark One, For you to come And have me close And stay an…
Listening to Timkat
I follow her story only in part, like a man looking from a lit room at dark…