American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Plantation
Too late for the tour and the history lesson, / too late in the season on this…
Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions
I We have witnessed in recent years the flowering of various Christian pluralistic theologies calling for unequivocal…
Hauerwas Examined
After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After…
Character and Poverty
Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30…
A Lutheran Affirmation
No Other Gospel! Christianity Among The World Religions by carl e. braaten fortress press, 142 pages, $10.95…
Church-State Conundrums
Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by derek davis prometheus books,…
Being Jewish in Public
For a long time, precisely as long as Judaism was marginal to my life, the strict separation…
What Americans Really Think About Abortion
At the foundation of any democratic society is the principle that the laws that order our lives…
Hindu Nationalism, Indian Democracy
India’s post-independence generation of leaders sought to keep religion at arm’s length from politics, regarding religion as…
Abortion and Political Compromise
Roe v. Wade is clearly in for substantial pruning—possibly even an outright overruling—in the near future. Thus…
Feminism and Feminism
We get these letters saying that we should not refer to “radical feminism” since all feminism is…
The Naked Public Square: A Metaphor Reconsidered
Christian groups called “Adventist” trace their roots to 1844, the year that some had fixed for the…
Editorial: The Corruption of the Would-Be First Estate
The fourth estate now considers itself to be the first estate, and not without reason. In public…
The Rapist and the Virgin
It may just have been a throwaway line, a presumed witticism, to which he gave little thought;…
Naming Good and Evil
Eighty-one years ago, G. K. Chesterton wrote a book entitled What’s Wrong With the World? His answer to…
