American Politics
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“I Am the Very Model of a Modern Vicar-P’rochial”
V-P:I am the very model of a modern Vicar-P’rochial. I’ve schooling theological, from Curran to Ezekial. I…
Paraphrase of Some Famous Lines in Spanish Literature
I will become dust and you will become dust and ashes our tongues and ashes our eyes but, ever…
Theology Through the Looking Glass
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Alice has been having quite a run through the Garden…
Leaping Headfirst Into the Smith Trap
Richard John Neuhaus has joined the chorus of those singing a lament to the death of religious…
“J” in Bloom
The Book of J translated from the hebrew by david rosenberg interpreted by harold bloom grove weidenfeld,…
Race and Urban Politics
The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by jim sleeper w.…
Populist Protestantism
The Democratization of American Christianity by nathan hatch yale university press, 312 pages, $25 In 1802 a…
The Theses of Martin Luther King, Jr.
News stories of recent months underscore the fact that the place of Martin Luther King, Jr. in…
Back to Fundamentals
The Fundamentalist Phenomenon: A View from Within; A Response from Without edited by norman j. cohen eerdmans,…
A Government for Real People
As a geographer, I learned years ago that my fellow countrymen are not only uninformed about the…
Complex Phenomena
The rules of chaos are simple: A mountain is never a perfect cone. A lake is never really a…
The Do-It-Yourself Catholic KiddieKism*
Q. Who made you? A. (Melissa Murphy, Age 10): Who makes me you should say! I co-creates me…
All You Needed to Know You Didn’t Learn in Sunday School
The Search Institute is located in Minneapolis, and it succeeded in inducing the Lilly Endowment and six…
Abortion Politics
A funny thing happened on the way to last November’s elections. Pundits who throughout the summer had…
The Things that Remain: An Episcopalian’s Credo
Fifteen years ordained and still serving in the parish. Still switching on the coffee at dawn Sunday…