How the ancient Olympics differed from the modern spectacle.

The first installment of our new midyear book report.

The first installment in a new Tolkien-inspired series shows genuine promise.

Part 2 of our midyear report on outstanding books.

The concluding installment of our three-part midyear book roundup.

The strange tale of the controversial Bishop Pike and his fatal quest for relevance.

Evangelicals and the environment.

A riveting memoir by the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.

A veteran columnist urges his fellow liberals to take a lesson from those nasty conservatives.

Who sent the locusts? And who exterminated them?

Martha Stewart, VeggieTales, and Narnia revisted.

Confessions of a wordsmith.

A dispatch from Calvin College's biennial event.

Millions of Americans have spent two hours listening to the characters in Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ speaking in an exotic, unfamiliar tongue. Yet not all find Aramaic so alien.

Four of the Seven Deadly Sins, as seen from a contemporary vantage point.

Plus a look back with some Negro League veterans.

A young minister works to prevent guerrilla kidnappings.

A hillbilly Thomist pushes back against modernity.

"In City: Urbanism and Its End, a new history of New Haven, Connecticut, the city (in its late 19th-century form) is an ambiguous heaven-and the suburbs that relentlessly followed are hell. Which leaves us where, exactly?"