Without a Claim Grace Schulman rsquo s dazzling seventh poetry collection immerses us in a richly textured world where ldquo dread-and-joy rdquo are neighbors ldquo Charles Street Psalm rdquo and nothing is truly ours ldquo We rent borrow or share even our bodies and never own all that

There have been many famous letters and letter-writers in history One thinks immediately of Cicero who made it an art form Then of course we have St Paul who filled his letters to early Christian communities with advice and doctrine news from the front and occasional scoldings One also thin

Dozens of well-known American and British actresses have portrayed religious women in film Some of them mdash Jennifer Jones in ldquo The Song of Bernadette rdquo and Susan Sarandon in ldquo Dead Man Walking rdquo mdash won Academy Awards for their performances There have been nuns who broke i

Voltaire remarked that all Christology is somehow autobiographical Geza Vermes born into a Hungarian Jewish family converted to Christianity political refugee Catholic priest who later returned to the Judaism of his ancestors first professor of Jewish studies at Oxford died on May 8 2013 at

When speaking against the death penalty to secular audiences I try to work in a plug for the unborn So once as a guest lecturer at Princeton I lamented the passing of Paul Ramsey a Princeton ethicist who demanded that abortion at any gestational stage be distinguishable from infanticide I equa

Many people claim that baseball is the ldquo thinking person rsquo s sport rdquo but I now believe that claim rightly applies only to spectators After reading Daniel Callahan rsquo s most recent two books one a memoir and the other a collection of essays spanning almost three decades of his ca