May 2006

Sacred Spaces & Other Places
A Sense pf the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Artby R. Kevin SeasoltzContinuum, 394 pages,…
Hold the Granola
Crunchy Consby Rod Dreher.Crown Forum,272 pages, $24. Making a long drive home from a meeting late last summer,…
Theology as Knowledge
James R. Stoner, Jr. Who stripped the public square and left it naked? That puts the matter…
Moral Stem Cells
The desire of the scientific community for embryonic stem cells is not diminishing. Indeed, it is increasing,…
The Diplomacy of Religious Freedom
Diplomacy may be the art of letting someone else have your way, but, these days, disagreements over…
Suing the Church
Last summer, attorneys in Colorado filed the first sex-abuse lawsuits against the archdiocese of Denver since the…
Briefly Noted 5
The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Traditionby Huston Smith.HarperSanFrancisco, 160 pages, $22.95. Written toward the end of…
The Lilliputian Imagination
Life in the Undergrowthby David AtttenboroughPrinceton University Press, 288 pages, $29.95 There’s an ancient human dream to…
Tsars & Commissars
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Cultureby Richard Pipes.Yale University Press, 216 pages, $30.…
The Beginning of the Journey
Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue 1913–1922by alasdair macintyrerowman & littlefield, 224 pages, $25.95 In the summer of…
The Road from Damascus
Paul of Tarsus: A Visionary Lifeby Edward Stourton.Paulist, 224 pages, $24. St. Paul is, to put it…
Rejection Note for Paradise Regained
Loved that first book”it’s got no equal” but, Johnny, we don’t love your sequel. If you would…
Playing Scratch-and-Win
The Scratch machine dispenses fun in little pictures. You choose one as flat and bright as a…