Defining “Evangelical”
by Samuel D. JamesA review of Thomas S. Kidd’s Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis. Continue Reading »
On Wounded Shepherds
by Francis X. MaierA review of Austen Ivereigh’s latest book, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »
A Not-So-Shaggy Dog Story
by John WilsonA novelist's pen name hides a playful detective tale. Continue Reading »
Chimpanzee Disaster
by Hannah NiemeierThe residents of Royal, Nebraska, loved their zoo to death. Continue Reading »
An Irish Dante
by Moriah SpecialeThe Five Quintets by micheal o’siadhail baylor, 381 pages, $34.95 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people,” but for the poet Micheal O’Siadhail, hell is a highly specific group of other people. Among the damned are Franz Kafka, Karl Marx, and—you guessed it—a certain . . . . Continue Reading »
Wendell Berry Goes to School
by John MurdockIf Baker and Bilbro succeed, students and professors will emerge believing that the goal is not to obtain a “good job” far away but to become a rooted, whole person. Continue Reading »
Sex, Fear, and Idolatry
by Angela FranksR. Marie Griffith's work is well researched, but conceptually thin. Continue Reading »
The Job of Ultimate Observer
by John WilsonThe world is out there, and it's our job to go out and discover it. Continue Reading »
The View from Here Is Glory
by Daniel RattelleJoshua Hren's new collection of stories, This Our Exile, presents an authentically Catholic fiction. Continue Reading »
The Cosmic Gamemaker
by Kevin JacksonPeople are changed by and through relationships of love—with God and with each other. Continue Reading »
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