In the first volume of Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict says that the purpose of writing a book about Jesus—the whole reason why Jesus is important—is because he is the one who brings God to […]
The books about Pope John Paul II are now coming out in a steady flow—and there is some fascinating material here. Jerzy Kluger’s childhood friendship with Karol Wojtyla—they were schoolmates together in Wadowice, spent much […]
With zombies all the rage (pardon the pun, 28 Days Later fans) there are all sorts of helpful instructions out there for dealing with them. One illustration of sundry methods for dispatching zombies pictures a […]
“The time may come when we date the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet system from the appearance of Gulag,” wrote a German reviewer of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment […]
There is a lovely early American hymn entitled “Fulfillment” that begins, See how the Scriptures are fulfilling, Poor sinners are returning home; The time that prophets were foretelling, With signs and wonders now is come. […]
Nuance is often lacking in discussions about global environmental crises, which makes Roger Scruton’s Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet (Oxford University Press) a gift for those distraught by the doomsday scenarios […]
In recent decades it has become common in certain circles—often academic, sometimes popular—to challenge the historicity of famous figures and seminal events. The most well-known expression of this trend can be seen in those circles, […]
When Dana Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) was appointed Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California, the position he now holds, David St. John of USC described his new colleague […]
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Free Press (New York, 2012) 337 pages. In a 2005 study conducted by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, they found that […]
Brad S. Gregory The Unintended Reformation: How A Religious Revolution Secularized Society Belknap Press, 2012 592 pages, $39.95 Modern academic history, according to historian Daniel Lord Smail, suffers from “the inflationary spiral of research overproduction, […]
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