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Religious life

New Whirled Order

by Kent Russell,

From In the Land of Good Living, a memoir, which was published last month by Knopf. At my Miami Catholic school, we didn’t have snow days, naturally. We had hurricane…

A Divine Pat

by John Cleese,

From Professor at Large, which was published last month by Cornell University Press. It must have seemed some kind of risk to request a sermon from a man once so…

The Number That No Man Could Number

by Anthony Heilbut,

Black America’s civil war over gay rights

The Watchmen

by Alan Jacobs,

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

Injustice Delayed

by Rebecca Solnit,

"The overall impression I came away with from the court decision was that Jarvis Jay Masters was considered a low-grade person who only deserved a low-grade trial. It’s certainly what he got."

Bird in a Cage

by Rebecca Solnit,

There are two things I think about nearly every time I row out into San Francisco Bay. One is a passage from Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, in which he…

L’amour filial

by Charlotte Brontë,Translated by Sue Lonoff de Cuevas,

By Charlotte Brontë, from an essay written while she was a twenty-six-year-old student at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. The essay, dated August 5, 1842, was discovered last year in…

Darling

by Richard Rodriguez,

A middle-aged woman in a brown wool suit tapped my shoulder after mass. She knew my name. She said she had read an interview I gave to an online magazine…

Blinded by the Right?

by T. M. Luhrmann,

How hippie Christians begat evangelical conservatives

The drunk’s club

by Clancy Martin,

A.A., the cult that cures

Shalom on the Range

by Theodore Ross,

In search of the American Crypto-Jew