Arts & Letters
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Trigger Warnings and Academic Consumerism
I have been reading a lot of back-and-forth about “trigger warnings” lately. Students who see themselves as…
Easter is not a Question Mark
Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and…
Awakenings
The following is being delivered at Brigham Young University today, March 22, 2016. I’m here today because…
Haven’t an Inkling
Charles Williams: The Third Inklingby grevel lindopoxford, 464 pages, $34.95 C harles Williams (1886–1945) was a cult…
Monument to Failure
The General Services Administration, together with the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office, has determined that one of…
Reformer’s Life
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformerby scott h. hendrixyale, 368 pages, $35 Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and…
The Loving Intellect
What does it mean to be an intellectual? The word comes from the Latin word for understanding,…
Briefly Noted
Saint Aldhelm’s Riddlestranslated by a. m. justertoronto, 173 pages, $29.95 The riddle of Samson’s strength, the riddle…
Books of 2015
We suffer nowadays from a surfeit of literary anniversaries. One blurs into the next until we begin…
Declaiming Homer
The Iliad translated by peter green university of california, 608 pages, $29.95 A translator of Homer is…
Mosebach’s Art
What Was Before by martin mosebach translated by kári driscoll seagull, 248 pages, $27.50 A woman asks…
Nikabrik’s Candidate
If you ever doubt that C. S. Lewis was gifted with a prophetic voice, you need look…
Falstaff the Prophet
His face boasts a geological set of wrinkles, which fold seismically with each witticism or bold-faced lie…
In Honor of David Steinmetz
David Curtis Steinmetz, one of the leading church historians of our time, died this past November at…
The Christian Vision of “The War Room”
Released last summer in theaters, and now available on DVD, The War Room was the most surprising…
