December 2024
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Letters – December 2024
Still Breathing I appreciated Matthew Burdette’s insights into “Progressive Supersessionism” (October 2024), drawing out continuities between today’s…
Resist the Conception Machine
The almost complete lack of reflection on the normalization of assisted reproductive technologies for producing children is…
Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button
All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of…
Overcoming Theological Amnesia
Ressourcement. It’s a French word that means “resourcing”—or, better, “re-sourcing.” As a term in theology, it calls…
Night of the World
Martin Heidegger is notorious for his embrace of Nazism in the 1930s. Yet he was a luminous…
Lady Scrooges
I noticed it last Christmas: It’s the women who really hate Ebenezer Scrooge. In the opening scene of…
Let God
I’m a great lover of the English language, but I must confess that, lately, I’ve come to…
The Less You Know
There’s a car mechanic I have known for years. Ed knew my father and worked on his…
America’s Atheist Diplomacy
For the last two years, a little-watched congressional investigation has been exploring the nature of religious freedom…
What Catholics Should Think About Climate Change
Climate change poses risks to people throughout the world. Christians have a moral duty to mitigate those…
Real Persons
How to Know a Person:The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seenby david brooksrandom house,…
Changing God’s Mind
The Widening of God’s Mercy:Sexuality Within the Biblical Storyby christopher b. hays and richard b. haysyale university,…
Ready for Weirdness
Living in Wonder:Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Ageby rod dreherzondervan, 288 pages, $29.99 Is life…
Disintegrating England
The English Soul:Faith of a Nationby peter ackroydreaktion books, 416 pages, $30 Peter Ackroyd is a major…
Solidarity About Nothing
Democracy and Solidarity:On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisisby james davison hunteryale university, 504 pages, $40…
Mere Christendom
Douglas Wilson argues for what ought to be uncontroversial: governance by wise Christians. He calls it “mere Christendom”…
Apophatic
Not with the myth and phosphorus of metaphor. Notwith lines of force looped in true-love knots.Not by…
Spontaneous Loss
Those early weeks, you could have been anyone, Too young for fingerprints, much less a name,And years…
