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Letters

June/July Letters

Various

Jihad or Bust Mustafa Akyol believes that “the main obstacle to Christian religious freedom in Turkey is…

Essays

Pope Benedict on Reforming the Reform

Richard John Neuhaus

Death & Politics

Joseph Bottum

The communicationof the dead is tongued with firebeyond the language of the living.—T.S. Eliot San Francisco is…

Remembering the Secular Age

Michael Novak

Atheism is back”or so you might imagine from so many writers in recent months, one after another…

God of the Philosophers

Wolfhart Pannenberg

In his much discussed lecture at Regensburg University on September 12, 2006, Pope Benedict underscored the crucial…

Opinion

Grooving on Jesus

Sally Thomas

The Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was less a coherent movement than a generalized wave…

The Life and Death of Religious Life

Benedict Groeschel C.F.R.

It was a truism—universally accepted until the last decades of the twentieth century—that, wherever the Catholic Church…

Reviews

Talmudic Jesus

Benjamin Balint

Jesus in the Talmud by peter schäfer princeton university press, 232 pages, $24.95 Rabbinic literature is surprisingly…

Supreme Confusion

Michael M. Uhlmann

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

David Gwilym Anthony

Betjeman: A Life by A.N. Wilson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 368 pages, $27 John Betjeman was the…

Land of the Setting Sun

John Rose

Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger Doubleday, 340 pages,…

Briefly Noted 206

Various

Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life by Paul F. M. Zahl Eerdmans, 267 pages, $18…

Briefly Noted 206

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Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life by Paul F. M. Zahl Eerdmans, 267 pages, $18…

Poetry

0’, 0’

Amit Majmudar

Where Equator and Prime Meridian cross is the one True Cross, the rood’s wood warped and tacked…

Kyrielle

Catherine Chandler

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

St. John of the Cross Rhina P. Espaillat

Apart and not yet a part, I live lightless and unseeing to be consumed out of being.…

Glosa: To the Divine

St. John of the Cross Rhina P. Espaillat

The beauty that can be eyed will never be my undoing, but rather what, beyond viewing, only…