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Some Recent Essays

  • "In the Garden", in the Fall 2008 of the very cool Cabinet magazine.
  • A review of Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem at Culture11.
  • Is Martin Amis amiss?
  • On The Life of Trees, from Books & Culture.
  • Why religion is weak, in the WSJ.
  • My critique of the "Evangelical Manifesto," also in the WSJ.
  • In 2007 I wrote for Books & Culture a series of more-or-less monthly columns called “Rumors of Glory.”
  • My review — sort of — of the Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran.
  • “The Youngest Brother’s Tale” is my review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
  • Earlier I reflected on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
  • Here are my thoughts on the Garden of Eden.
  • And on the varieties of American Christian signage.
  • Here’s an article for the Boston Globe on C. S. Lewis.
  • And one on James Agee.
  • Should a historically Protestant institution like Wheaton College hire Catholics? Here are some thoughts about that, and some of the correspondence that ensued.
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