A well-respected writer and editor's memoir of childhood Christmases set in the sometimes harsh but always captivating landscape of South Dakota.Wreaths and holly, fruitcakes and mistletoe, ornaments
A neoconservative Catholic thinker describes the growing influence of Catholic thought in American politics, argues that the failure of mainline American Protestant churches has led to the rise of onc
This is the day the Lord has made.A butterfly floats through the sun and the shade,while dragonflies flit past the flowers and treesand grasshoppers hop in the soft morning breeze. The World Is Awake,
Bottum, books and arts editor of the Weekly Standard predicts that the great controversy beginning in the late 1990s about the role of Pope Pius XII during World War II is over. Lacking the prestigiou
Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present. For most of the first six decades, the portrayals were favorable and even reverential. By contr
In The Pius War, Joseph Bottum has joined with rabbi David G. Dalin to gather a representative and powerful sample of these reviews, deliberately chosen from a wide range of publications. Together wit
The essays in this volume demonstrate that the debate among conservatives about which principles and practices are most urgently in need of protection is also a debate with the larger liberalism tha
