November 2005
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November Letters
Fusion or Confusion? Joseph Bottum’s intelligent and clever essay on “The New Fusionism” (June/July) offers a possible…
The New Orleans That Was
We remember the big ones. There was Carla in 1961, Camille in 1969, and Andrew in 1992.…
Lutherans Undefined
This August, at its 2005 Churchwide Assembly in Orlando, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) sidestepped…
Augustinian Justice
Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine by robert dodaro cambridge university press, 262…
Briefly Noted (Nov. 2005)
Heavenly Torah as Refracted through the Generations. By Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited and translated by Gordon Tucker…
Law & Language
Law’s Quandary by Steven D. Smith Harvard University press, 222 pages, $45 Steven Smith takes us on…
Seeking Signs and Wonders
The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan Atlantic Monthly, 448 pages, $25 Few things rankle the modern mind…
The Ugly American Goes to Sudan
Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo Knopf, 688 pages, $26.95 Philip Caputo’s Acts of Faith is a…
The Great Woman Theory of History
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade by Donald T. Critchlow Princeton University Press, 438 pages,…
The Monahans
They chose the countryside to make their tangled beds, the lissome girl beneath, the tousled boy astride.…
Walking the Sea
Walking the sea, I think of the small diaspora of the hermit crab, and the unshackled shell.…
