American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
At Home
This morning, early, I wakened to a knocking at the pane—an apple bough, fruit-laden, stirred by wind—and rose to…
The Mother of Editorials: The Times Gets Religion
Maybe we have been too hard on the editorial page of the most influential of our parish…
Editorial: That Encyclical
We do not ordinarily publish official church statements. In fact, we never have before. This issue, however,…
Presbyterians for GLARF
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has done the sensible thing and rejected the report of its Task Force…
White Firefighters, Hank Aaron, and Affirmative Action
Just when the Supreme Court is beginning to reconsider “affirmative action” plans that provide preferences on the…
The Irrational and the Limits of Human Reason
Pick up nearly any university publisher’s catalogue these days, and you are likely to find more than…
Can Atheists Be Good Citizens?
The question is asked whether atheists can be good citizens. I do not want to keep you…
The Advent of Literary Science
It is now more than thirty years since C. P. Snow’s Cambridge Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures…
The WCC at Canberra: Which Spirit?
In the theological world, Liberation theologies express the yearning for human wholeness . . . They reread…
How Churches Crack Up: The Case of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Memoirs in Exile: Confessional Hope and Institutional Conflict by John H. Tietjen Fortress Press, 368 pages, $19.95…
Religion and Public Life
Under God: Religion and American Politics by garry wills simon and schuster, 445 pages, $24.95 Garry Wills…
Not the Worst of Times—Or the Best
The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators and Ideas About the Surge of America in the 1990s by…
The God of the Philosophers
Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth by mortimer j. adler macmillan,…
Evangelicals and Politics
The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square by james w. skillen zondervan, 225 pages…
Not the Catholic Moment?
The Church, Pilgrim of Centuries by thomas molnar eerdmans, 182 pages, $15.95 Perhaps of all world religions,…
