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Essays

The Really Poor

Richard John Neuhaus

God and Evolution

Avery Cardinal Dulles

During the second half of the nineteenth century, it became common to speak of a war between…

Reading the Signs

Alan Jacobs

Church Signs Across America by Steve and Pam Paulson Overlook, 162 pages, $19.95 Bible Road: Signs of…

Christian, Muslim, Jew

Spengler

Franz Rosenzweig is widely regarded as one of the greatest Jewish theologians of the past century. Best…

The Virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre

Stanley Hauerwas

Few dispute that Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most important philosophers of our time. That reputation,…

Opinion

October Letters

Various

Getting Immigration Right Peter C. Meilaender’s thoughts on immigration policy (“Immigration: Citizens & Strangers,” May) are careful,…

Economics as Eugenics

Philip Jenkins

Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World is not quite as…

Evangelical Amnesia

Dean C. Curry

In a well-known 1922 sermon, Harry Emerson Fosdick threw down the gauntlet to fundamentalism when he demanded…

Reviews

What the Apostles Saw

Gary A. Anderson

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness ­Testimony by Richard Bauckham Eerdmans, 538 pages, $32 Modern…

A Religious People

George McKenna

A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State by Daryl Hart Ivan R.…

God & the Second Sex

Colleen Carroll Campbell

Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge Nelson, 224 pages, $14.99…

Briefly Noted 208

Various

The Politics of Abortion by Anne Hendershott Encounter, 190 pages, $25 To understand the modern American abortion…

Looking for Personality

Gilbert Meilaender

Persons: The Difference Between “Someone”?and “Something” by Robert Spaemann Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $85 WE SOMETIMES…

Briefly Noted 208

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The Politics of Abortion by Anne Hendershott Encounter, 190 pages, $25 To understand the modern American abortion…

Poetry

After the Dinner

David Mason

The friend who tells me I’m a selfish ass is drunk, so maybe I should let it…

A Complaint of the Times

Gail White

So much regulation and so few lives saved, So much loud music and so little melody, So…

No Turning Back

Timothy Murphy

Pierce the Eye of the Needle no caravan can pass. Ride without a saddle a colt, the…