Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
RJN: More on Harper
We’ve been having this little back and forth on whether Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, is…
RJN: I.F. Stone
In this Sunday’s New York Times , Paul Berman has a thoughtful review of two books ,…
Running Into a Wall
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes. Oxford University Press, 240 pages, $20. American…
Miller: Well-Ordered Means and Ends Revisited
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver, who teaches at Cornell, argues in Commonweal that the genuinely Catholic vote this fall…
Hylden: Hope for the Anglican Communion
For the first time in recent memory, Anglican conservatives have something to cheer about. Ever since the…
George: Reply to Garnett
Mirror of Justice , a website for Catholic law professors, has been the forum for some exceptionally…
Pearce: British Muslims�Muslims First?
In spite of the general malaise that looms over England like a malignant cloud, there are still…
Anderson: Benedict, Islam, Faith, and Reason
Death threats issued to Pope Benedict XVI, Muslims burning the Pope in effigy, promises to conquer Rome…
Wilken: Pope Benedict XVI, a Byzantine emperor, and Muslims
The passage quoted by Pope Benedict XVI in his speech at the University of Regensburg that caused…
RJN: Artificial Happiness
No, not that Ronald Dworkin, the legal philosopher at New York University. This Ronald Dworkin is a…
Powers: Mac Donald and the Moral Legacy of Christianity
Heather Mac Donald’s defense of “skeptical” (i.e., atheist) conservatives against the Religious Right has by now been…
W.B. Yeats: Protestant
In my blog on Bobby Kennedy , I know I made one mistake, and at least two…
Songs of the Soul in Intimate Amorous Communion with God
O love, you living flame who wound with tender fire my very soul, down to its depths…
RJN: 6.23.06 I have great respect for Marc Stern…
I have great respect for Marc Stern, who has long been the religious-liberty point man for the…
Poetry
His Space and Time Each morning when he wakes he reaches forHis glasses and his watch, his…