Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Instructions for Climbing and Descending
Good foot goes to heaven; bad foot goes to hell. When every step torments and pain is…
Letters
Reason and Revelation There is a deep divide between Jonathan Rauch’s belief that marriage is a malleable…
The Glory and Decline of Bread
Sliced bread (sic) a centimeter thick staling on forty surfaces fit for soggy sandwiches real bread excels…
The Song of the Black Potatoes
“People sink,” wrote Mr. Bishop; “they have no stamina left, they say ‘It is the will of…
Final Reward
St. Peter stands at the Heavenly Gates? enrolling a new admission. “Reporting for duty, sir,” Mike Clancy…
Quietist Controversy
François Fénelon: A Biography—the Apostle of Pure Love? by Peter Gorday Paraclete, 258 pages, $24.99 As is…
Love’s Translations
Song of Songs: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by paul j. griffiths brazos, 240 pages, $32.99…
Redeeming Places
Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today by craig g. bartholomew baker, 384 pages,…
Last Night As I Lay Sleeping
Last night as I lay sleeping, I dreamed”oh blessed art!” of fountain water leaping and flowing in…
Sin, Redemption, and Spider-Man
God so loved the world that he gave his only son. God so loved me that he…
In Praise of Good Bad Books
I had a fairly bookish childhood. I don’t mean that I was a sedentary youth; I spent…
Dreams of Heaven
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by john gray farrar, straus and…
Dogma’s Defender
Theological Tractates by erik peterson, edited and translated by michael j. hollerich stanford, 296 pages, $24.95 Germany’s…
After the Mighty Gods Depart
They do not always hear our special plea, the lame gods”Deaf-In-One-Ear, Old Hobbled-Knee, that sooty lug the…
Accidents
On the verge of the unthinkable, the iceberg turns unsinkable to the hull. The buoying force of…
