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David assembles the leaders of Israel for Solomon’s coronation (1 Chronicles 28–29; cf. 29:22), and, even more…

Popular cliche is that Lutherans and Anglicans are high-church, Reformed lower. Lutherans and Anglicans are sacramentally-minded, Reformed…

In a fascinating article on “the structure of significant lives,” Norman Fiering summarizes Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s description of…

According to John Milbank (“Politics of time”), “libertarianism insists that the future lies with the isolated ‘reflective’…

At the end of 1 Chronicles, David delivers a series of speeches to the qahal (assembly) of…

My youngest son, Smith, is reading through the Bible this year. He’s getting bogged down in Leviticus.…

Alexi Sargeant For Lent this year, I’m reading a heretic, as David Mills suggests (his title is…

Thomas Nagel reviews Daniel Dennett’s latest, From Bacteria to Bach and Back, in the NYRB. It’s a…

Charles Rosen celebrated Chopin’s birth in June 2010 with a NYRB essay on the composer. Rosen observed…

In a New Yorker profile of filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By the Sea), Rebecca Mead calls attention…

Candy Gunther Brown’s The Healing Gods is an effort to explain how Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)…

In her editor’s introduction to Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, Candy Gunther Brown observes: “According to the…

In an essay on the Brandenburg Calvinist pastor John Bergius, Bodo Nischan observes that “Unlike most Protestants…

Robert Carle suggests that “sensible refugee policy will balance two competing realities: first, it is a moral…

John Milbank writes, “Since life passes and is only mediated through memory and desire, every concrete instance…