In This
Issue

The Dialectic and the Double Helix

How the compatibility of Christianity and democracy in America is confusing to Europeans

Reading the Bible with the Reformers

We ought to read Scripture the way Luther and Calvin did

Newman’s Ideal University

Theology as the reason-shaped science of revelation requires an infallible magisterium

Whig History at Eighty

The enduring relevance of Herbert Butterfield and his most famous book

Thomas Merton and Confucianism

Why the contemplative never got the religion quite right

Blurring Sexual Boundaries

No fixed borders for sexual identity, means no fixed rules for sexual expression

Letters

Real Death, Real Dignity

Dying with dignity is not the “death with dignity” many propose

RJN and First Things

The Business of Medicine

A review of White Coat, Black Hat

Paradoxical Portraits

A review of Blessed and Beautiful

Can We Know What We Know?

A review of Mathematics and Religion

Giving Caesar His Due

A review of Defending Constantine

Whooshing Through Life

A review of All Things Shining

Late Night

Manna

Drought Breaker

Dear Juan de la Cruz

At Stake

Outings

Govett’s Leap

While We’re At It

Wise persons; Kim Jong Il, dance master, etc.

With Timbrels and Dance