November 2010

Go With God
The Christian religion,” wrote Robert Louis Wilken, “is inescapably ritualistic (one is received into the Church by…
Setting the Course
Dangerous Christians There are different ways to respond to a crisis. The first is to bellyache about…
College Rankings
From Abilene Christian University in Texas to Zion Bible College in Massachusetts: For this survey, First Things…
Faith in America’s Colleges
Wheaton College in Illinois is the single best place to go to college in America. Or Thomas…
Bacchanalia Unbound
Cynics will say it was ever thus, and this time the cynics will be wrong. There are…
Letters
The Politics of Life My own take on abortion politics is somewhat different from Joseph Bottum’s (“The…
The Mysterious Stranger
Autobiography of Mark Twain:The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al.…
Two Souls in One Breast
The German Genius by peter watson harpercollins, 964 pages, $35 What went wrong in Germany? How did…
Schools of Thought
It’s not easy to answer, the simple question of where to study theology. Interests, backgrounds, convictions, and…
What the Father Came to See
How old the story is, we have come to see, and yet how true. The kid’s back…
The Girl with the Franzen Tattoo
Freedom By Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 576 pages, $28 What if Jane Austen’s Bennet sisters…
Mass on the Grass
Students at Northern Arizona University gather for an outdoor Sunday service.
Mandatory Chapel
Add up the music conservatories and the seminaries, the enormous land-grant universities and the tiny Bible colleges,…
“The Aims and Principles of Education”
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