November 2003
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November Letters
Harsh Realities or Handy Myths? In “The Women of Roe v. Wade ” (June/July) Mary Ann Glendon’s…
The Secular City Redux
The Public Square There are in the press repeated references to “the rapidly growing lay protest movement,…
A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ
Where have you fled and vanished, Beloved, since you left me here to moan? Deer-like you leaped;…
Keeping the Commandments
Given the contentiousness of public life in America today it was inevitable that the bulky stone monument…
The Episcopalian Preference
On August 5, 2003, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following initial action…
The Holocaust: What Was Not Said
For decades controversy has raged over the absence of any specific reference to Jews, or to their…
Remembering the Gulag
Gulag: A History . By Anne Applebaum. Doubleday. 720 pp. $35 . Somewhere a young film student…
Tolkien and the Gift of Mortality
When I started reading The Lord of the Rings as an undergraduate, I was half-embarrassed to be…
The Bigot’s Opera
The Commander enters the living room carrying a big black Bible. He reads Genesis 30:1-3 to his…
Scandal, Prayer, and Penance
When my family in Massachusetts first told me the news of priests in Boston being accused of…
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Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith. By Eric O. Jacobsen. Brazos. 192 pp.…
The Making of a Killer
Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist. by Alston Chase W.W. Norton. 432 pp.…
Too Much Democracy?
The Future of Freedom:Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroadby fareed zakariaw.w. norton, 286 pp, $26.95 Since ancient…
The Risen Christ
The Resurrection of the Son of God by n. t. wright. fortress. 740 pp. $39 The past…
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Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith. By Eric O. Jacobsen Brazos. 192 pp.…
To Christ on the Cross
I am not moved to love you, Lord, to gain the heaven you have promised in return.…
Herod’s Confusion
As her dance dissolves and smiling Salome Sashays across the floor in smoky veils To join her…
Religion and Science Revisited
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith by Stephen M. Barr. University of Notre Dame Press. 312 pp. $30.…
