January 2025

Iain McGilchrist’s New Era
Once, the story goes, man stood at the center of the universe. He looked in the mirror…
My Gay Tragedy
I sat in my chair, looking through the window across the wide plain to the towers of…
Cities for Humans
You get the best first impression of Poundbury on a bright summer’s afternoon, when the air is…
Against Christian Civilization
The last time I was in America, which was last autumn, I visited the battlefield at Little…
Preach For America
Awoman, sitting behind the wheel of her car, is hollering. She’s alternating between “why, why, why,” and…
This Shining Night
Colorado, where I live, is a great place to go stargazing. Up in the mountains, the heavens…
Christianity and Civilization
The room was overflowing, the applause thunderous. Novelist, activist, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth delivered a galvanizing Erasmus…
Middlebrow Protestantism
In 1979, a player for the Baltimore Orioles named Pat Kelly hit a home run and raised…
Pascal’s Wager: An Update
Should you believe in God? For many people, belief is a matter of faith. But let’s say…
Equal Persons
Several years ago, James Mumford brought to my attention a passage from an essay by George Orwell.…
Letters – January 2025
Streaming The Word I appreciated Fr. Lusvardi’s excellent and most thoughtful article “Screens and Sacraments” (November 2024),…
Modernist Enchantment
Olivier Messiaen:A Critical Biographyby robert shollreaktion, 208 pages, $35 In May 1988, just under four years before…
Divorce in the Gospels
Remarriage in Early Christianityby A. Andrew DasEerdmans, 384 pages, $49.99 The translation of Biblical texts requires both…
Jordan Peterson’s “God”
We Who Wrestle with God:Perceptions of the Divineby Jordan B. PetersonPortfolio, 576 pages, $35 A man who disbelieved…
Maimonides for Today
The Guide to the Perplexed:A New Translationby moses maimonides, translated and with commentary by lenn e. goodman…
Stained Glass
My father holds a panel of glassbetween us: we are both bathed blue.Wordlessly, we let the light…
My Mother’s Teeth
My mother’s teeth were kept in a bottlemarked with the sign of the cross. I usedto shake…