It has been almost twenty years since I dissected a dead human body. It still seems strange: My first encounter with a human body to learn the art of healing was an encounter with a corpse. What is more, I took this body to pieces. In any other context, this act would have been a felony. Respect for . . . . Continue Reading »
God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America by samuel goldman penn, 248 pages, $34.95 The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land edited by gerald r. mcdermott ivp academic, 352 pages, $26 Israel Matters: Why Christians Must Think Differently about the People . . . . Continue Reading »
Hidden in the northern suburbs of Oxford are the last traces of a path first trodden by multitudes of country folk hurrying to see the burning of the Protestant martyrs Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley on October 16, 1555, and trudging home afterward. For some years I lived very close to this track, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Making of Martin Luther by richard rex princeton, 296 pages, $27.95 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation by peter marshall oxford, 278 pages, $24.95 A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation by craig harline oxford, 312 pages, . . . . Continue Reading »
A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by ephraim radner baylor, 304 pages, $49.95 A Time to Keep is an odyssey—a journey through childhood and adolescence, work and sexuality, aging and dying. The reader encounters Sigmund Freud on dying and death, . . . . Continue Reading »
The story of Abbot Thomas Frerking, OSB, deserves to be better known. Continue Reading »
The demise of Philadelphia DHS’s foster care contracting arises from a desire to purge dissenters and purify the state. Continue Reading »
Contrary to some analyses, Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option does not call for a retreat from political life. Continue Reading »
The resolution of the intercommunion question in Germany will have far-reaching consequences in the Church. Continue Reading »
The Trudeau government illustrates perfectly the relativist campaign against religious people and associations of goodwill. Continue Reading »
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