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May 2014

May 28, 2014

Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

Tramp. Cad. Lily-livered. Townie. Every generation has their put-downs, but for a certain subset...

May 19, 2014

Bleeding Edge

Is it better to seek the truth, or to accept the comfort of illusion?...

May 06, 2014

The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison’s essays in The Empathy Exams ask – and begin to answer –...

April 2014

April 21, 2014

When My Brother Was an Aztec

The title poem of Natalie Diaz’s first collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec,...

April 03, 2014

The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

Paul Bogard’s The End of Night has as much to say about the night...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Five Books to Read in College

This is a list of five amazing books. They come representing five noble genres: the...

March 24, 2014

The Rule of the Clan

What should be the relationship among individualism, civil society, and state power in a healthy...

March 08, 2014

Call the Midwife

Jennifer Worth’s The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times chronicles the...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

The Miniature Wife

The Miniature Wife, Manuel Gonzales’ debut collection of short stories, begins with a line...

February 14, 2014

Why Read Middlemarch?

Thanks to Rebecca Mead and her memoir, My Life in Middlemarch, 2014 looks to...

February 08, 2014

The Compound

Following a catastrophic nuclear attack, fifteen-year-old Eli has spent the past six years living...

February 03, 2014

On God’s Side

Jim Wallis’s On God’s Side comes in two parts. In the first, he argues...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography

For those who enjoy biographies and love books, what could be better than a...

January 27, 2014

The Great Agnostic

Some biographies praise their subjects so effusively that they seem to take on the...

January 24, 2014

Strange Gods

Pop quiz: define “idol.” If the first thing you think of is Israel dancing...

January 20, 2014

This Town

As a recent transplant to Washington, D.C., I seemed well-placed to review This Town....

January 16, 2014

The New Digital Age

3D printing leading to global manufacturing on demand, the complete reshaping of the idea...

January 14, 2014

The Village

The first time I ventured into Greenwich Village — that quintessential New York City...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

Against Fairness

Stephen T. Asma’s book is titled Against Fairness, but it doesn’t take too long...

December 13, 2013

The Evangelicals You Don’t Know

Any reportage on American Evangelicals that cautions its audience not “to dismiss these people...

December 07, 2013

The End of Our Exploring

“We want to ask questions that don’t have predetermined answers,” Rachel Held Evans explained...

December 05, 2013

The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat

Politics, meet the water’s edge. One sense of the old phrase “politics stops at...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

The Juvenilization of American Christianity

This book review originally appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of Fare Forward. ...

November 15, 2013

The Unsettling Emergence of Marilynne Robinson as Environmentalist

Marilynne Robinson's three novels are gentle, compassionate, wonderful in the strict sense, and haunting. However,...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Why Priests?

The first priest that Garry Wills takes aim at isn’t a man in a...

September 20, 2013

Politics and Faith: Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich at Union Seminary in New York

Christianity, as a faith rooted necessarily in history, has been shaped by theologians battered to...