May 2020
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COVID-19: New York Diary
Friday, March 20. A light fog hangs in the air in the early morning as I walk…
Methodism Dividing
In the summer of 2016, Karen Oliveto, a “self-avowed practicing homosexual,” was elected and consecrated a bishop…
The Secret of the Saeculum
The Music of Providence In the tenth book of The City of God, Augustine reminds his readers…
Italy in Crisis
With just over 120,000 people, Bergamo, northeast of Milan, is not a particularly populous city, and it…
Why School Prayer Matters
In his State of the Union address and elsewhere, President Trump has emphasized the importance of prayer…
Letters
Religious Freedom Matthew Schmitz is right that we should focus less on the need for a universal…
The Right to Be Wrong
In “Limits of Religious Freedom” (March), Matthew Schmitz says that we must recognize limits to religious freedom…
An Informal Establishment
Unlike most other supporters of same-sex marriage, Douglas Laycock has spoken out in defense of Americans compelled…
The Education of a Pro-Life Clergyman
We used to walk to church together, Susan and I, she a junior at St. John’s College…
Confucian Integralism
In May 1989, protestors in Tiananmen Square erected a plaster statue of the Goddess Democracy. For almost…
Little Rock and the Terrors of Social Life
To a small child in 1957 Brooklyn, Little Rock was a faraway place. The only thing I…
Prince of Diplomats
Metternich:Strategist and Visionaryby wolfram siemanntranslated by daniel steuerharvard, 928 pages, $39.95 rn In the midst of a…
Just Hospitality
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fearnby matthew kaemingkneerdmans, 352 pages, $28 Without quite…
Thomistic Economics
Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economyby mary l. hirschfeldnharvard, 288 pages, $45 Economists make a…
American Scream
The American Dream Is Not Dead (But Populism Could Kill It)by michael r. strain templeton, 168 pages,…
Tobit or Not Tobit
The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scriptureby iain provan baylor, 724 pages, $49.95 As Iain Provan…
An Accident
The road flares burning where the truck swerved off Just before midnight show the streaks in…
Communion for the Great Dismal Swamp
Is it a violence to take the knife to the loaf? This redemptionhas a split crust and…
Ruby Throat
A hummingbird’s wings might beat a thousandstrokes a minute. The birds can swerve, hover,fly backwards and straight…
Thumbing an Issue of Forbes
In the obits, ballplayers still finish first,their August exploits no one quite remembersrestored to life: the diving…
Avoidance
An avalanche of reckless thoughts keeps usApart. I’ll find excuses when, by chance,We meet between distractions. Let’s…
Reading the Signs
So-and-so slept here, a date, a listof battles fought—whatever they’re about,he reads them all, not just to…
Notre-Dame de Paris, 2015
Most evenings I’d meet Daniel right in frontOf City Hall, to walk home for our mealOn Rue…
