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Essays

Iain McGilchrist’s New Era

Dan Hitchens

Once, the story goes, man stood at the center of the universe. He looked in the mirror…

My Gay Tragedy

Karl Johann Petersen

I sat in my chair, looking through the window across the wide plain to the towers of…

Cities for Humans

Anselm Audley

You get the best first impression of Poundbury on a bright summer’s afternoon, when the air is…

Against Christian Civilization

Paul Kingsnorth

The last time I was in America, which was last autumn, I visited the battlefield at Little…

Opinion

Preach For America

Liel Leibovitz

Awoman, sitting behind the wheel of her car, is hollering. She’s alternating between “why, why, why,” and…

This Shining Night

Ephraim Radner

Colorado, where I live, is a great place to go stargazing. Up in the mountains, the heavens…

Christianity and Civilization

R. R. Reno

The room was overflowing, the applause thunderous. Novelist, activist, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth delivered a galvanizing Erasmus…

Middlebrow Protestantism

Matthew Schmitz

In 1979, a player for the Baltimore Orioles named Pat Kelly hit a home run and raised…

Pascal’s Wager: An Update

David DeSteno

Should you believe in God? For many people, belief is a matter of faith. But let’s say…

Equal Persons

Gilbert Meilaender

Several years ago, James Mumford brought to my attention a passage from an essay by George Orwell.…

Letters – January 2025

Various

Streaming The Word I appreciated Fr. Lusvardi’s excellent and most thoughtful article “Screens and Sacraments” (November 2024),…

Reviews

Modernist Enchantment

Richard Bratby

Olivier Messiaen:A Critical Biographyby robert shollreaktion, 208 pages, $35 In May 1988, just under four years before…

Divorce in the Gospels

Kyle Harper

Remarriage in Early Christianityby A. Andrew DasEerdmans, 384 pages, $49.99 The translation of Biblical texts requires both…

Jordan Peterson’s “God”

Alastair Roberts

We Who Wrestle with God:Perceptions of the Divineby Jordan B. PetersonPortfolio, 576 pages, $35 A man who disbelieved…

Maimonides for Today

J. J. Kimche

The Guide to the Perplexed:A New Translationby moses maimonides, translated and with commentary by lenn e. goodman…

Poetry

Stained Glass

Valerie Wohlfeld

My father holds a panel of glassbetween us: we are both bathed blue.Wordlessly, we let the light…

My Mother’s Teeth

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

My mother’s teeth were kept in a bottlemarked with the sign of the cross. I usedto shake…