Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Teachers’ Guilt
In the middle of the fall semester, I find myself thinking back to the end of another…
Poetry
Drowned Lover Dearest enemy, so often unkind, my life was in your hands, until that wave of…
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Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society . By David Sloan Wilson. University of Chicago…
Return to Reason
Stephen Toulmin’s Return to Reason provides an occasion to reflect on the remarkable fact that our faith…
Poetry
When my fantasies, and these extreme regrets, shut my eyes in sleep, I discover, before me, the…
The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration
The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration—a somewhat mistitled, often uneven, but extremely provocative…
The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land’s Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium, A Reporter’s Journey
Travel literature presents the reader with singular challenges, foremost among them the need to discern the limitations…
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Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America. By Egal Feldman. University of Illinois Press. 323 pp. $34.95. The…
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
Contemporary Christianity has shifted south, and its preponderant weight has gone pear-shaped, which is the gist of…
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Robert Kaplan has spent the past twenty years reporting on local collapses of civilization, chiefly in sub-Saharan…
On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding
No one should be surprised by the recent decision of the New Jersey Department of Education to…
Problems or Puzzles?
The German word for “courage,” Mut , is verbal cousin to the English word “mood.” But unlike…
Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The Theological Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
In recent years, sociologists, historians, and cultural theorists have documented the struggle over the identity of American…
C. S. Lewis Then and Now
Wesley Kort’s C. S. Lewis Then and Now is extraordinarily puzzling. It contains many fresh and valuable…
Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
In the current literature on the connections between science and religion, it is rare to find a…
