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Seeking the Sacred: Douthat’s Case for Religious Tradition in an Age of Uncertainty
We are pilgrims in this world. We must be content to wonder as we wander. Douthat is asking his readers to cast their nets into the deep.
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The Wild of God in Waterloo Township, Michigan
I found it to be profound and moving, the work of an author who is not lost in flights of fancy but who is deeply receptive to the world and its God.
A SNOOT’s Dream Deferred: A Review of Dictionary of Fine Distinctions
I suppose when it comes to discussions of the English language, I prefer sterner stuff.
Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Review
There ought not be unnecessary opposition between Indigenous and Christian perspectives. The creative work of caring for our ecology is hard enough; let us not also misunderstand one another.
Speaking Responsibly about Religion and Politics: A Review of Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism?
This driving principle of love and human flourishing, rooted in the Christian understanding of humanity being made in the image of God, has spurred the great social and political reform movements in…
Scenes From a Stolen Childhood: A Review of Kinderszenen
Only in Israel, I think in retrospect, would twelve-year-olds be this intimately familiar with the history of the Holocaust, the violence and suffering of oppression in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the horrifying…
Working the Soil in American Literature: A Review of Ethan Mannon’s Georgic Mode
Do we love the soil and the creatures put in our stead, or do we prefer the images our devices project at us? While the choice is not always so cut and…
One Hundred Years of Obscurity
Eloquent and nuanced, never pompous, The Rector’s Daughter sets before us the inexhaustible mystery of persons and the ways they manage to live together.
“An Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness”: A Review of The Pursuit of Happiness
Rosen contends that we have lost touch with a classical understanding of happiness, in part because of a shift of cultural emphasis from “being good to feeling good.” Fortunately, social and behavioral…
Localism and Justice: A Review of The Story of Clyde Kennard
Kennard himself, though worrying about his legacy during his last illness, seemed remarkably free of bitterness. Concerning a prison guard who had abused him, he thought that the abuse had harmed the…
Democracy Against Localism
That’s the great cultural task now: to relearn this old language, to keep it from dying out, to nurture it and refine and expand it, to develop new idioms and accents. Holston’s…
Rendering Me into We: A Review of The Crisis of Narration
Disagreements aside, however, Byung-Chul's argument remains a valuable one: the cultures of consumption that rule the modern world are death to the cultures of community that give life meaning.
Bjartur and Berry: Contrasting Visions of Community and Affection
Seen through his most redemptive lens, Bjartur stands as a cautionary tale for those who would pursue independence as an end in itself.
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