October 2013
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Every Last Detail
Every Last Detail n In “The Gay Guide to Wedded Bliss,” the cover story for a recent…
The Impossibility of Secular Society
There is no such thing as a secular society. My claim is a brutal and paradoxical one:…
2013 Supreme Court Roundup
The United States Supreme Court has two personalities. In the vast majority of cases on its docket,…
No Happy Harmony
At least once a semester, a young female student will come to my office with questions about…
Letters
Being Together n R. R. Reno writes in “Solidarity” (June/July) that “solidarity involves sharing social space and…
How Fares Religious Freedom?
Over two years ago, the federal Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the “HHS mandate,” a…
Our Lady of Wheaton
Mary, it seems, is a hot Evangelical topic. As a new professor at Wheaton College, I proposed…
China’s New Christians
On the last day of 1899, the nude body of Sidney Brooks, twenty-four, was found in a…
The True Helen
That Helen never really eloped with Paris, that the Achaeans and the Trojans fought their great war…
On Libertines
How Sex Became a Civil Liberty? by leigh ann wheeler? oxford, 352 pages, $34.95 n The 2013…
Called by Him
In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine? by jean-luc marion? translated by jeffrey l. kosky…
Oh, Henry!
Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry? by gregory alan thornbury…
Global Canon
The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community? by wm. theodore de bary ?columbia, 432 pages,…
Divided We Stand
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences? by david cannadine ?knopf, 352 pages, $26.95 n The history…
When
For man also knoweth not his time. (Ecclesiastes) n the silver cord the broken lamp the overboard…
Saecula Saeculorum
For centuries the human spirit strove To rise above the beast, Gazed at the stars, and aimed…
No Honor
I stole an apple, ripe and red, ?hanging on my neighbor’s tree. ?“He’ll never miss just one,”…
Anchorite
It would seem, from the sound of it, slang ?In Her Majesty’s Navy, say, circa ?Trafalgar”the deckhand…
The Wood Duck
One time I was driving very slowly with my oldest living brother Through an arboretum he loves,…
The Postponed Conversation
Some days her mind begins to reappear. Today you feel her halting fingers trace, along your skull,…
Monuments
You’re with us still, your names engraved in stone, ?Inscribed in bronze, recited every May. ?Fresh flowers”mums,…
Homage to Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” I was already an old man when I…
Prayer for a Meeting
Come, Holy Spirit, fill me with affection for sycophantic colleagues who pretend a boss’s remark is witty;…
A Summer Idyll
We’re superannuated now, no doubt. Impossible to overlook the facts: age blotches skin, puts muscle tone to…
