October 2014
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The New New Left
The New New Left We’re heading toward a meritocratic, libertarian-tilting consensus in America. That’s my reading of…
Taking the Long Way
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead…
The Sound of Salvation
Can music save your mortal soul?” Don McLean asked that question in his 1971 classic, “American Pie.”…
Christian Witness in Ukraine
On a summer afternoon at the southern tip of the Crimean Peninsula, I shield my face from…
Briefly Noted
How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor? by james k. a. smith? eerdmans, 160 pages, $16…
Ecclesiocentrism
Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction by nicholas m. healy eerdmans, 154 pages, $23 Good books on contemporary…
Singing Lessons
As my daughter and I travelled home over the Wicklow Mountains, our voices echoed between the cliffs,…
Evangelizing Christians
If baptism isn’t just a symbol of initiation but is an initiation, then Zach was already a…
The Death of Martha Wichorek
In the winter of 1996, while I was studying the record of Jack Kevorkian’s first forty-seven physician-assisted…
Witch Morals
Upon its release fifteen years ago, the distributors of The Blair Witch Project realized they had a…
Feeling Fancy
The Wes Anderson Collectionby matt zoller seitzabrams, 336 pages, $50 Wes Anderson is one of the most…
Carter’s Progress
Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter? by randall balmer? basic, 304 pages, $27.99 Historians generally agree that…
Treasury in Heaven
Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition by gary a. anderson yale, 232 pages,…
On a Bird
The swift perched, tweeting like a petty tyrant, Ruffling the feathers of self-love and power, And dropped…
October Poem
What is the best poem you ever wrote in your whole life? I ask a friend of…
The View on Waking
Melius enim iudicavit de malis benefacere, quam mala nulla esse permittere. —St. Augustine There is a kind…
The Church in the Bloodlands
Ukraine has been riven by civil strife. The winter months of 2014 saw a three-month-long anti-government demonstration…
