During my doctoral program at Oxford, my wife and I had the good fortune of attending a wonderful Anglican church. Located just across from Christ Church, St. Aldate’s has a history going back to the twelfth century and St. Frideswide, which spoke to me given that I was writing on the canons . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t often find myself shouting “amen” to the opinions of the editorial board of the Washington Post . And my list of heroes is scarcely crammed with politicians. But today a hero of mine who happens to be a politician was praised in a Washington Post editorial. . . . . Continue Reading »
Re-reading War and Peace in recent weeks, I have been reminded of one of the most monumental pieces of miscasting in the history of the motion picture industry. For those who have never read the novel, a central part of the drama depends upon the fact that one of the major characters, Pierre . . . . Continue Reading »
This past Friday, in an interview with a Vancouver reporter, Canada’s Industry Minister James Moore caused a ruckus when he suggested addressing child poverty isn’t the responsibility of the federal government. “Obviously nobody wants kids to go to school hungry,” he said, . . . . 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 »
When the serpent first speaks in Genesis, the woman is eager to correct him. His opening speech is probably best construed, according to many modern scholars, as an incomplete subordinate clause: in Robert Alter’s translation “Though God said, you shall not eat from any tree of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Tuesday! Here’s what we have for you today: Maureen Mullarkey promotes a Christmas quiz . Peter Leithart is reading about: the desire for glory, the Ukraine , political judgments , Augustine and just war , Starcraft , violence , and the dance of history . Dr. Boli is running a caption . . . . Continue Reading »
The Public Religion Research Institute has just released a survey about American attitudes toward Christmas. The highlights: A plurality of those surveyed favored merchants’ use of the generic “Happy Holidays” greeting rather than the more explicit “Merry Christmas.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Some years ago, I taught a Sunday School class of third- and fourth-graders. One Sunday, they learned the story told in Luke 4 of Jesus’ rejection at Nazareth. We talked about how Jesus’ quotation of Isaiah 61—“the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me . . . ”—was an . . . . 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 »
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