What should U.S. foreign policy look like?

This new selection of C S Lewis rsquo s letters on spiritual matters makes good reading even for someone already conversant with Lewis rsquo s life and work Compiled by the longtime Lewis scholar and enthusiast Paul F Ford Yours Jack is reader-friendly The subtitle suggests that the collectio

James Howard Kunstler rsquo s novel begins in the pastoral setting of a riverbank where the narrator Robert Earle and his best friend Loren Holder have concluded a successful fishing excursion Although they are slightly intoxicated by the natural beauty around them and by some home-made wine th

Alan Jacobs' 'Original Sin,' reviewed

Just published is a new and remarkable memoir by the gifted spiritual writer and poet Kathleen Norris For many years she underwent her own ldquo dark night rdquo of the soul In a letter to the reader she tells of her study and investigation into this state of spiritual dryness a sense of not ca

Why am I as a mass going staunchly pro life Catholic voting for Obama Of course I disagree with his views on Roe vs Wade but I think that his policies and programs more comprehensively follow Catholic social teaching than McCain s--and they even result in fewer abortions There s a lo

In the summer s box office smash The Dark Knight the Joker played by Heath Ledger does not run around Gotham spreading evil per se He spreads chaos And then watches good people choose evil in the midst of the chaos Yesterday for a variety of reasons the discussion of what government shou

Wall Street forgot that the money at issue was not just a dollar figure on a balance sheet but the life savings of a human person a grandmother who had earned her retirement or a married couple trying to put money away for their child s college education Thus Michael Sean Winters s last post

Mark makes much use of shocking contrast as he presents the public life of Jesus Messiah and Son of God While Jesus pursues his life s goal of obedience to his Father others begin to define their relationships to him Crowds look on him with great favor and travel long distances to enjoy bot

I remember a conversation I had with a Washington sage in December of 2000 shortly after the Supreme Court stopped the counting of votes in Florida awarding the presidency to George W Bush The country will be fine It will be like the 1840s and 1850s my friend said No one remembers the pres