December 2014
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Sex and the Religion of Me
Why has the equivalence of same-sex and opposite-sex relations suddenly become a moral and social absolute? That…
Government Marriage
A constitutional right for men to marry men and women to marry women is a done deal. That’s…
Undying Love
The cry of lament in Psalm 102 exposed a raw wound: “My days pass away like smoke…
Is Sex Necessary?
E. B. White and James Thurber’s prescient satire of the sexual revolution in America, Is Sex Necessary?,…
Tayloring Christianity
Why was it once virtually impossible not to believe in God, while today many of us find…
Letters
UKRAINE John P. Burgess’s article “Christian Witness in Ukraine” (October) is flawed in several significant ways. First,…
Should Science Think?
The question is not quite as facetious as it might sound; it is really rather metaphysical; and…
Prayer in the Facebook Age
It is easy to overlook those moments in the Gospels when Jesus withdraws from others. They come…
New-Time Religion
The West, we are told, has entered the secular age. Religious faith is irreversibly shriveling, opening space…
Cardinal Francis George
In the spring of 1997, a routine meeting of the finance council of a venerable archdiocese (best…
Briefly Noted
Redeeming “The Prince”: The Meaning of Machiavelli’s Masterpiece ?by maurizio viroli ?princeton, 208 pages, $26.95 In Redeeming…
What Critical Vision?
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by adam kirsch norton, 320 pages, $26.95 If T.…
Religiously Texan
Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State? by robert wuthnow? princeton, 664 pages, $39.50…
Life Without Law
Montaigne: La Vie Sans Loi ?by pierre manent? flammarion, 366 pages, 22 € Michel de Montaigne’s autobiographical…
Seduced and Betrayed
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil? by paul bloom crown, 288 pages, $26 On a…
The Rebel
A livid angel like an eagle stooped And haled the disbeliever by the hair: “You’ll learn the…
Ornament
He said he had no use for ‘holy’ things, The ornaments of Christ’s nativity: “You Christians keep…
Ancilla
I am the maid of Lady Claudia. She’s not an easy mistress, but she’s fair. I smooth…
Sixty-Two
Not fit enough to wander the wild woods or separate my wouldn’ts from my shoulds, what can…
The Old Story
She loved him in the way girls only canAt sixteen, with a maelstrom of desire. She lingered…
Terminal Leave
The unarmored shoes she donsleave space in the toe for a soul. A phantom hanging on her…
Deathless Truths
Scholia to an Implicit Text: Bilingual Selected Editionby nicolás gómez-dávilavillegas editores, 392 pages, $24 Nicolás Gómez-Dávila’s name…
