American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Jury of One’s Godless Peers
Reading First Things may disqualify you from sitting on a jury, at least if a lawyer decides…
The Family: Discovering the Obvious
For many years now, and often inadvertently, secular as well as religious researchers have been amassing facts…
Children at Risk
At first glance, Hardwired to Connect, the recent report from the Commission on Children at Risk, a group…
The Enemies of Religious Liberty
It is common for religious believers to lament the Supreme Court’s barely concealed hostility to the free…
Founding Fathers?
John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Father.by Francis J. Bremer.Oxford University Press. 478 pp. $39.95. William Bradford’s Books: Of…
The Three Rings of Monotheism
The Monotheists: Jew, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition.by F.E. Peters.Volume I: the Peoples of God;…
A More Public Yeshiva
The investiture of a university president—that is, the ceremony in which the authority and symbols of that…
Luther, the Movie
At least among sociologists of religion, if not journalists, it has become something of a cliché that…
Confessions of a Christian Historian
“History is God’s theatre, . . . God’s jousting place.” …
Catholicism as the Other
Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion,…
Diverse Diversities
Diversity can rightly be called a value-free term. All it does, ordinarily, is identify a condition of…
From Myth to History and Back
Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Troublesome Geniusby William R. Shea and Marliano Artigas.Oxford University…
Johnny of the Cross
In the world of popular music, one generally becomes a “legend” only in death—as if death accomplishes…
A Bible for Everyone
One summer years ago, I attended a conference that met at Princeton Theological Seminary; we participants stayed…
Jobs and Babies
It seems that most people who write about the joys and challenges of childrearing today are parents…
