Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Crazy for God
Someone must have arranged this. It’s as if Frank Schaeffer’s book Crazy for God was designed to…
The March Issue of First Things Is Here!
“A gift cannot so easily be severed from its giver,” writes Gilbert Meilaender, responding to the news…
Slavery, Christianity, and Islam
It has become a feature of today’s atheist chic to shy bricks at Christianity for its record…
The Wages of Advocacy
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha Nussbaum Basic Books, 320…
Catholic Scholars, Secular Schools
At Fordham University, while I was teaching there in the late 1960s, it was said that most…
The True Cost of Doing Something About Global Warming
According to a news story from Reuters , a recent Tufts University study (available here ) says…
The Pope Writes to Chinese Catholics; Stanley Fish’s Take on Richard Dawkins & Co.¯with Unhappy Consequences for Reason
Pope Benedict’s letter this past week to the Catholics of China is a development of potentially historic…
Keeping Marriage Public
Prof. Stephanie Coontz recently took to the pages of the New York Times to inform us that…
On Christian Hope
Pope Benedict XVI released his new encyclical letter, Spe Salvi (Saved by Hope), November 30, just two…
“Call Me Blessed”
The project known as Evangelicals and Catholics Together is now in its thirteenth year¯following its initial statement,…
Newman in the Modern Classroom
I really think learning should be optional, ma’am.” This statement comes from one of my ninth graders…
Debating the Separation of Religion and Politics / The Bishops’ Conscience Clause
Last Saturday, the British magazine The Economist , sponsored a debate on this resolution: “Religion and politics…
Faithful Catholics and Faithful Americans
For the early Christians, living in societies that were at best indifferent to Christianity and frequently hostile,…
Fantasy and Faith
The winter I was ten, my teacher read A Wrinkle in Time aloud to our class, a…
Saving Lost Languages
This is a story¯a creation myth from the Tofa: In the very beginning there were no people,…
