Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Canonization
Rome 17 October 2010 Mary MacKillop, born 1842, what are the clergy giving you on my birthday,…
Can We Know What We Know?
Mathematics and Religion: Our Languages of Sign and Symbol by Javier Leach Templeton, 188 pages, $19.95 n…
Newman’s Ideal University
Imagine you’ve just read Plato’s Republic and then—conscientious citizen that you’ve now become—you enter a Chicago voting…
Drought Breaker
Two years of drought seem broken by a deluge that would be the wrath of God were…
Outings
If you don’t have it in your own backyard, go find it somewhere else. Outings are good…
A Review of Every Riven Thing
Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 93 pages, $24 n Christian Wiman is…
Letters
Natural Law, Franckly Speaking Matthew Franck has been a friend, and I know he was seeking to…
Giotto’s Epiphany
Who before Giotto thought to remove the king’s crown— this first from the earth’s kingdoms come to…
Christianity Comes to Northumbria
According to England’s first historian, the Venerable Bede, King Edwin of seventh-century Northumbria pondered the question of…
Long Live the King
Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611–2011 by gordon campbell oxford, 256 pages, $24.95 Pen…
Address to the Manger
Sleep, infant, sleep among the oxen and the sheep which kneel before your manger. Welcome to danger.…
Letters
THE UPWARD CURVE If readers agree with Joseph Bottum, as I do, that American print standards are…
Faith in a Time of Faithlessness
They are lovely, your orange slices and peignoirs, and especially that green cockatoo, but why, poet, limit…
Lutheran in Limbo
Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologianby carl e. braaten eerdmans, 210 pages, $18 Lutherans are…
While We’re At It
• Remember the alliance of atheists who offered to take care of your pets in the event…
