Matthew Cantirino

The Cultivation of Christmas Trees Casey N. Cep, Paris Review Bonhoeffer and His Brother Alexander Kazam, Wall Street Journal Calculating Christmas William J. Tighe, Touchstone Will Richard Florida Apologize? Alec MacGillis, New Republic Fathers of the Year Douglas Kearney, Poetry . . . . Continue Reading »

Elected Representatives Wesley Hill, Books & Culture Book Hunting in the New Dark Ages Paul D. Miller, The City An Interview with Richard Rodriguez Scott Timberg & Richard Rodriguez, Salon Dominicans Caroling in DC [video] Dominican House of Studies College: Not for Everyone Rachel Lu, . . . . Continue Reading »

Swing Low Christopher Benfey, New York Review of Books Mormons and the New Statement on Race John Turner, Anxious Bench Raising the Awesome Child Diane M. Hoffman, Hedgehog Review It’s Time to Return to the New Critics Micah Mattix, Public Discourse The Desolation of the Imagination Fr. . . . . Continue Reading »

The Arminian Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Roland Boer, Political Theology The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War Margaret MacMillan,  Brookings Institution Our Diurnal Civilization Ribbon Farm Lux, Lumen, and the Lights of Science Alan Wall, Fortnightly Review “Poetry . . . . Continue Reading »

Church Realignment and the Search for Greener Grass Alan F. H. Wisdom, Juicy Ecumenism Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution Kaya Genç, Los Angeles Review of Books Commies for Christ Nathan Schneider, New Inquiry Communion for the Remarried: What’s at Stake Ed Peters, In the Light of . . . . Continue Reading »

We Dream of Europe Sophie Pinkham, n+1 Rome: Sex and Freedom Peter Brown, New York Review of Books I Did Not Propose a “Grand Bargain” Peter Steinfels, Human Life Review Time ’s Kantian Wedge Fr. Robert Barron, RealClearReligion Farewell Inisfada George J. Marlin, Catholic Thing . . . . Continue Reading »

Copts Gain Rights in Charter Jayson Casper, Gleanings The Terrifying First Christmas Matt Emerson, America The Iraqi Jewish Archive: Should the U.S. Send It Back? Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service The Denominational Imperative Peter Berger, American Interest Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics . . . . Continue Reading »

Seeking a Saint in the Heart of a War Zone Beatriz Terrazas, The Rumpus Science and Non-Science in Educati0n Harvey C. Mansfield, New Atlantis The Inauthenticity of Christmas Carols Sean Morris, Humane Pursuits Is There Justice in Job? Joan Acocella, New Yorker Québec’s Secular Charter . . . . Continue Reading »

A Heschel Master Class David Wolpe, Tablet Who Is Donna Tartt? Mick Brown, Telegraph Triumph of the Maternalists Nancy McDermott, Spiked A Secular Saint? Erin Wilson, ABC Religion & Ethics The New Old High Churchmen Fr. Jonathan, Conciliar Anglican . . . . Continue Reading »

Hopkins’ Agony of Spirit Edward Short, Weekly Standard Die, Selfish Gene David Dobbs, Aeon Handel’s Messiah at the Abyssinian Baptist Church A Journey Through NYC Religions The Elements of Eloquence Christopher Howse, Spectator An Ode to Calvinism Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism . . . . Continue Reading »