Ways of ‘Knowing’ Cancer
For an academic who has been living with cancer since 1996, reflecting on the ways we think and make value judgments about serious illness cannot help but be an existential endeavor. By Mark U. Edwards, Jr.
Category: Winter 2009
Perfect Machines, Avenging Angels
The New Sci Fi: Battlestar Galactica and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. By Brett Grainger
Unfinished Business
Well before this historic election season, religion and race have been factors in presidential elections. By Peter J. Paris
Enlightenment Apologist
Susan Neiman’s Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists. By Sharon Goldman
Glimpsing a Land beyond Limits
Why do a Catholic laywomen decide to study theology when there are so many roadblocks and so little institutional support? By Barbara R. Bodengraven
The Resurgence of Imagination
The traditional Freudian suspicion of the spiritual should not stop psychoanalysts from borrowing from Eastern meditative disciplines. By Sudhir Kakar
Two Poems by Charles Wright
“Yellow Wings” and “Terrestrial Music” by Charles Wright
The Greening of Jesus
Increasingly, the fundamentalist view of climate change is losing force as it is challenged by scientists who are equally devout. By Mark I. Pinsky
Three Poems by Frannie Lindsay
“The Forgetting,” “The Thrift Shop Dresses, “and “Prayer for My Sister” by Frannie Lindsay.
Three Poems by Victoria Bosch Murray
“Prayer to Falling,” “Prayer to Lighting Dinner Candles, “and “Prayer to Wreckage” by Victoria Bosch Murray.
The Hard Stuff Is the Good News
An interview with Peter J. Gomes. By Daniel Smith
New Paternalisms
Elements of the new Russia seem to be modeled on the old, imperials state. By Stanisław Obirek
Resolution 2009: Get New Eyes
The pain and uncertainty that come along with a serious illness can thrust us back into the same world, but with new eyes. By Brin Stevens
Populism and Politicking
‘Affinity politics’ was taken to a new, disconcerting level in 2008. By David Lamberth
Bynum’s Appetite for Full Humanity
Caroline Walker Bynum’s Holy Feast and Holy Fast. By R. Marie Griffith
