December 2020
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Antiracist Hysteria
Nineteenth-century France was the scene of bitter cultural and political conflict. The German invasion in 1870 inflicted…
The Genius of Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud.” So begins a famous poem of William Wordsworth’s, one that was…
Doctor of Providence
Like St. Francis of Assisi, Julian of Norwich is widely admired and misunderstood. Unlike St. Francis, however,…
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
After the 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, a crisis of meaning emerged in opinions of the United States…
Letters
Monuments Catesby Leigh notes in his essay “Monumental Contrast” (October) that the removal of the Theodore Roosevelt…
Colorblind and Tone-Deaf
In November 2019, a controversy broke out at the annual conference of the Society for Music Theory.…
The Judaism of George Steiner
George Steiner, who died earlier this year, was one of the most influential Jewish intellectuals of the…
Last Things
In 1972, I took part in a Christian panel addressing senior students at a government high school…
Down to Earth
Gertrude Stein characterized the young men and women emerging from the wreckage of World War I as…
Democracy with a Human Face?
Anthony Trollope poked fun at those fascinated by political life, obsessed with “the close, bosom friendship, and…
More Is Needed
Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nationby david french st. martin’s, 288…
Defined by the Cross
Who Is an Evangelical?The History of a Movement in Crisisby thomas s. kidd yale, 200 pages, $26…
Rigorous Divinity
The Nature and Promise of Analytic Theologyby oliver d. crisp, james m. arcadi, and jordan wessling brill,…
Regressive Ed
The Cult of Smart:How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injusticeby fredrik deboer all points, 288 pages,…
Catholic Colonialism
Apostles of Empire:The Jesuits and New Franceby bronwen mcshea nebraska, 378 pages, $60 In Apostles of Empire,…
Briefly Noted — 12/20
The Love That Is God:An Invitation to Christian Faithby frederick christian bauerschmidt eerdmans, 147 pages, $18.99 Bauerschmidt…
Evensong
What are they saying, the birds coasting at sunset, getting ready for bed,dive-bombing into darkened trees where you…
Echoes
“Do the kitchen? I’ll give you Swedish Fish!”I hear negotiations reach a peak,numbers flying, the clatter of…
This Tinnitus
i This tinnitus—its tintinnabulationsso whiningly thin. ii This tinnitus—tiny and tinny and yetso terribly loud. iii This…
Stormchild
A raindrop mirrorsThe whole typhoonStretched like a spoonUpon her clear Curvaceous skin,Synoptic nudeFully tattooedFor one instant With…
To Herod at Christmas
Fear not, despite the evening’s crippled shinsdropping to dust again from your rooftop view.The anvil coming down…
Outback
I was grown before I knew the moonwaxed and waned that way,waxed in a D and waned…
