June/July 2007

June/July Letters
Jihad or Bust Mustafa Akyol believes that “the main obstacle to Christian religious freedom in Turkey is…
Grooving on Jesus
The Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was less a coherent movement than a generalized wave…
The Life and Death of Religious Life
It was a truism—universally accepted until the last decades of the twentieth century—that, wherever the Catholic Church…
Talmudic Jesus
Jesus in the Talmud by peter schäfer princeton university press, 232 pages, $24.95 Rabbinic literature is surprisingly…
Supreme Confusion
Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History by Joseph W. Dellapenna Carolina Academic Press, 1,300 pages, $95 History…
For a Moment, Little Lower than the Angels
Betjeman: A Life by A.N. Wilson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 368 pages, $27 John Betjeman was the…
Land of the Setting Sun
Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger Doubleday, 340 pages,…
Briefly Noted 206
Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life by Paul F. M. Zahl Eerdmans, 267 pages, $18…
Kyrielle
For moments when they questioned me and I replied indifferently, or wished I’d practiced birth control, may…
Glosa: Apart and Not Yet a Part
Apart and not yet a part, I live lightless and unseeing to be consumed out of being.…
Glosa: To the Divine
The beauty that can be eyed will never be my undoing, but rather what, beyond viewing, only…