The Epistle of James in the Current Crisis

by Peter J. Leithart

The Epistle of James, as understood within its first-century context, is still relevant today.    Continue Reading »

2 Aug 2019

Word for Word

by Paul V. Mankowski

The Hebrew Bible:  A Translation with Commentary by robert alter norton, 3500 pages, $125 In 1582, Catholic scholars in exile at Rheims published an English version of the New Testament prefaced by a lengthy explanation and defence of their rendering, which, they said, accorded with the rule of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019

What Are Biblical Values?

by Peter J. Leithart

A new book marginalizes the Bible's ethical claims in the public square. Continue Reading »

19 Jul 2019

Heroic Domesticity

by Peter J. Leithart

Proverbs’s epic poem throws our own cultural battles into high relief.  Continue Reading »

24 May 2019

Allah's Mercy and Wrath

by Gabriel Said Reynolds

God in the Qur’an by jack miles  knopf, 256 pages, $26.95 Jack Miles, a former Jesuit seminarian turned author and editor, is best known for God: A Biography. In his latest book, he compares the gods of the Qur’an and Bible, with sympathy for the former. Instead of addressing the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

The Church’s Book

by Michael C. Legaspi

The Bible in a Disenchanted Age:  The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith by r. w. l. moberly baker, 240 pages, $24.99 The Book of the People:  How to Read the Bible by a. n. wilson harper, 224 pages, $26.99  The Bible and the Believer:  How to Read the Bible Critically & . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018

The Religious Elite

by Mark Bauerlein

Recently, while poring over a section from the Bible with my Catholic tutor, we came across a passage that surely must be the most irritating one in all of Scripture to a secular liberal. No, it is not Genesis 1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” which to a Marxist is the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018

Dare to Knock

by Cassandra Nelson

The Kingdom by emmanuel carrère farrar, straus and giroux, 400 pages, $28 The genius and the apostle are alike, according to Kierkegaard, in that both bring new ideas into the world. But there’s a crucial difference. Geniuses are ahead of their time, and, consequently, the knowledge they bring . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018

Historical-Critical Qur’an

by Paul V. Mankowski

The Qurʾān and the Bible:  Text and Commentary by gabriel said reynolds yale, 1032 pages, $40 This book is misleadingly named. The blame, if blame there be, rests with the stingy conventions of contemporary publishing. The work deserves one of those splendidly prolix seventeenth-century . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

The Miracles of Judas

by Matthew J. Franck

For all the time of his ill conduct, Theodore McCarrick has been a priest of Jesus Christ. Continue Reading »

30 Jul 2018