Essay: The death penalty and the evolution of faith
The Church’s understanding of what it means to live a Christian life has been evolving for 2,000 years and will continue to do so. For instance, the early [...]
Book review: “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett
That great and silly American writer Christopher Moore, in recent years, has mined the Shakespeare canon for sources for his comic novels. You could call this thievery. Or you [...]
Book review: “Building A Revolutionary State: The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783” by Howard Pashman
For Great Britain, the late 18th-century conflict with its North American colonies was a civil war. The colonists were in rebellion and needed to be policed. For [...]
Book review: “A Book of Silence” by Sara Maitland
Since 2000, British writer Sara Maitland has been investigating, searching for, reaching for silence. Eight years through the still-ongoing process, she wrote about her endeavor in A Book [...]
Poem: “The lost tribes”
The lost tribes for Haki Madhubuti I found the lost tribes in America, eating fries with city workers at the McDonald’s on Western Avenue. I [...]
Essay: “My soul magnifies the Lord”
For 2000 years, Mary the mother of Jesus has been a major figure in Christian theology, liturgy and art and a major inspiration to believers working to live their faith [...]
Book review: “War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998” by John Keegan
War is violent, chaotic, destructive, deadly and, for the aggressor nowadays, morally wrong. Yet, how to fight war except with war? Two decades ago, in a series of [...]
Poem: “Blood and flesh”
Blood and flesh Cathdrale st Etienne You tell me to crawl into the ragged slash in your side and pull the raw edges of flesh together to [...]
Book review: “The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography” by Alan Jacobs
The Book of Common Prayer was created in the 16th century as the prayer book of the Church of England. Originally, that institution had been part of the Roman [...]
Book review: “The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography” by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
In 2005, Penguin Books published a new translation of Bardo Todol, the collection Buddhist texts that, in the West, has been known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead [...]