articles by Franklin Freeman

26.4 — July/August 2013

The Door to Paradise

A Christian Reflection on the Attractions & Shortcomings of Buddhism


25.2 — March/April 2012

Fair Reprieve

Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age by Gregory Wolfe


24.4 — July/August 2011

Woe Are We

Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11
by Andrew R. Murphy


21.3 — April 2008

Colored by Numbers

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
by Daniel Tammet


20.10 — December 2007

World of Tears

Virgil: The Aeneid
translated by Robert Fagles, introduction by Bernard Knox


20.7 — September 2007

Dead Men Russian

House Of Meetings
by Martin Amis


20.6 — July/August 2007

Illuminations

In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition
by Lucy Beckett


20.5 — June 2007

The Heart in Twain

Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age by Harold K. Bush, Jr.


20.3 — April 2007

Eliot’s Edifice

Dove Descending: A Journey into T. S. Eliot?s Four Quartets
by Thomas Howard


19.9 — November 2006

The Scarlet Thread

From Witchery to Sanctity: The Religious Vicissitudes of the Hawthornes
by Otto and Katharine Bird


19.7 — September 2006

Wheelin’ Grace

Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


19.4 — May 2006

Flighty Plan

Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith
by Anne Lamott


18.6 — Nov/Dec 2005

I Am a Rock

I am Charlotte Simmons
by Tom Wolfe


18.2 — March 2005

Greene's True Colors

The Life of Graham Greene
by Norman Sherry


short pieces by Franklin Freeman

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