December 2016
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Healing the Dying
At our annual reunions, my brother and sisters and I often joked that we flew home every…
Mustard Seeds
The first chapter of Genesis is a grand liturgy of creation. The second chapter describes with existential…
Soros and Simony
Left-leaning financier George Soros is known for spending millions of dollars trying to influence U.S. presidential elections.…
Down and Out at Del Mar
The most dismaying thing I have read in this year of crummy happenings was a one-page vignette…
Cocktail Theology
A man down the bar from me turned and said, “Is that a costume, or are you…
The Protest
It wasn’t a perfect evening for a demonstration. The night was cold and damp. On the rain-slick…
Letters
No Authority As a practicing general pediatrician, I appreciated Dr. Leonard Sax’s article “Don’t Ask the Kids”…
A Gentle Orthodoxy
Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present Day by andrew louth intervarsity, 383 pages, $28…
Where We Stand
The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church by peter j. leithart baker, 240 pages,…
Briefly Noted
Exodus by thomas joseph white, o.p. brazos, 336 pages, $32.99 In days past, to study Scripture was…
Man, Lion, Calf, and Eagle
The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus by francis watson baker…
Cauldron of Resentment
The Witches: Salem, 1692by stacy schifflittle, brown and company, 496 pages, $32 Of all the catchphrases Americans…
Leaving the Party
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Volume IV:Party, Parliament, and the Dividing of the Whigs, 1780–1794…
Last Stab at Goodness
I’ll tell you how to be the perfect man:You do a perfect imitationOf someone who would hesitateTo…
The Snowstorms that Remain
I’m waiting like a child on Christmas Eve,waiting for dawn to show me that the snowis finally…
On My Late Grandmother Still Receiving Mail
And still the letters came.Her neatly printed nameWas clear on every one.A few proclaimed she’d wonA one-time…
God Talk
Evenings are when I like to talk to God.I wait all day to watch till He goes…
Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir
Hanging old ornaments on a fresh cut tree,I take each red glass bulb and tinfoil seraphAnd blow…
Shepherd
On clear cold nights when far stars speckle skies& woodsmoke goes straight up & disappearsa dozen constellations…
