January 2025

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),…
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…
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…