Peter J. Leithart

“Clothes gave us individuality, social polity; clothes have made men of us, they are threatening to make clothes-screens of us.” All our earthly interests are “hooked and buttoned together and held up by clothes . . . . Society is founded upon cloth.” This is one of the . . . . Continue Reading »

When Wang bought some meat at a Wal-Mart in China, it didn’t taste right. He knows what donkey tastes like , and this definitely wasn’t donkey. He thinks it tasted a lot like fox. Donkey is popular in China: “As rising disposable incomes have boosted demand, prices for popular . . . . Continue Reading »

Department stores in Thailand put up Christmas trees, snowmen, advertise Christmas specials. In November, 800+ school children formed a record-breaking human Christmas tree at a mall in Bangkok. In India, you can buy Christmas meals at restaurants, carolers sing in the malls, and cities are . . . . Continue Reading »

The Hebrew Bible speaks of “thought,” but by that it rarely means what we think of as “abstract” or “pure” thought. Ancient Hebrews gave thought to things in order to set their purposes and develop their plans. Thought was forward-looking, oriented to practical . . . . Continue Reading »

“Fine linen are the righteous acts of the saints” (Revelation 19:8). Believers are clothed in Christ (Galatians 3), but in Revelation their clothing is their own righteous works. Not everyone’s clothing is acceptable. Some dress in pride and violence (Psalm 73:6). At the center of . . . . Continue Reading »

In the midst of many wonderful things in Francis I’s exhortation, there are some missteps. One of these comes towards the end in his pastoral advice concerning Islam. I don’t object to his exhortations to Christians to treat Muslims with dignity and love. He’s undoubtedly right . . . . Continue Reading »

Garrison Keillor gives Norman Rockwell a spirited defense in his NTYBR review of Deborah Solomon’s American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell . Rockwell, Keillor , writes, “believed that a painting was more than color and form, that it needed to carry a story ‘The story . . . . Continue Reading »

“It is not true that every writer isthe teller of one tale,” writes Adam Kirsch in his TNR review of Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books , “but it is close to being true of Roth. Again and again he stages the rebellion of desire against duty: sexual desire, most famously in the . . . . Continue Reading »

In his exhortation on the joy of the gospel , Francis I lays out several principles that should guide evangelization. The first is “Time is greater than space.” He explains, “A constant tension exists between fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete . . . . Continue Reading »

Brian Marr begins an exploration of the revelation of the Trinity in Israel’s history over at the Trinity House site. . . . . Continue Reading »