American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Summer’s End
Yesterday stealing from the sun dandelions lit the shaded path briefly. Now they’re gone. Hurry through faded…
Pym Wins
The Book Against God by James Wood Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 257 pp. $24. James Wood is…
Tolkien and the Gift of Mortality
When I started reading The Lord of the Rings as an undergraduate, I was half-embarrassed to be…
The Bigot’s Opera
The Commander enters the living room carrying a big black Bible. He reads Genesis 30:1-3 to his…
