Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
At Stake
Brave luminaries, Jan Hus and William Tyndale, Were made to glow like scrolling leaves on Kindle, Snuffed…
Now Once Again
Now once again the glaring moon, A mirror in the midnight sky, A single flower in an…
A Review of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass edited by Yuval…
Waiting for St. Vladimir
Alasdair MacIntyre, who is probably the greatest living philosopher, concludes his 1981 masterwork After Virtue by saying,…
A Review of The Friends We Keep
The Friends We Keep by Laura Hobgood-Oster Baylor, 230 pages, $19.95 n Laura Hobgood-Oster’s new book on…
The Incarnation
It’s easy to step back and denounce the excesses of the Christmas season: the orgy of spending,…
The Mysterious Stranger
Autobiography of Mark Twain:The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al.…
Dim and Dimiter
Dimiter by william peter blatty forge, 304 pages, $24.99 The Exorcist—as William Peter Blatty, the now eighty-two-year-old…
Founding Believers
What were the religious beliefs of the founding fathers? That question is at the heart of many…
Much Ado About “Nothing”: Stephen Hawking and the Self-Creating Universe
Has physics done away with God? A newly release book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow says,…
For Lucia, on Her Confirmation
In Houston once, the candles running out Before we got to Easter Vigil (late), I held you…
Review of What is Truth?
What is Truth? From the Academy to the Vatican by John M. Rist Cambridge University Press, 376…
Love is a Noun
One of the many clichés of book titling is the “____ is a verb” trick. It’s supposed…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide
Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal by Dana Evan Kaplan 446 pages, $34.50 n A housewife in…
Our Muddled Masses
It would appear that America needs a miracle to escape the “new normal” of low growth. We…
