Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah By Charles King. Doubleday, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.00. Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Karl C. Schaffenburg. Joyeuses Fêtes! as a seasonal greeting is no more silly than “Happy Holidays!”,...
Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity By Nadya Williams. IVP Academic, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $26. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. On the walls of the birth center sit posters about birth control. In the office...
The Eucharist Is Really Jesus: How Christ’s Body and Blood Are The Key To Everything We Believe By Joe Heschmeyer. Catholic Answers Press, 2023. Paperback, 174 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. C.S. Lewis once observed that he believed in Christianity like...
Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations By Benedict Beckeld. Northern Illinois University Press, 2022 Hardcover, 264 pages, $32.95. Reviewed by Daniel Fischer. Americans’ relationship with their country resembles a fraying marriage....
Now and at the Hour of Our Death: Making Moral Decisions at the End of Life By Nikolas T. Nikas and Bruce W. Green. Ignatius, 2024. Paperback, 213 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. While washing the dishes, I listened to a shock jock philosophize about...
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