American Politics
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Immortal Florence
Dante and Michelangelo You were here; Brunelleschi, Donatello, Savonarola, the Medici, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, Leonardo da Vinci—All left their mark; But none is so…
The Christian Intellectual Tradition
It is easy to get religion, something else to hold on to it. It’s like dieting—many find…
War Games
Summertime on Mama Bell’s back stoop,it always started with someone saying, “Your mama don’t wear no drawers”—school kids…
The Unmodern Jew
I I would like to have an answer. . . . If someone will be good enough…
Godly Cooking? Theological Ethics and Technological Society
Every civilization has had its own ways of getting materials out of the bio-physical environment in order…
The Decline and Fall of the Christian College (II)
The first part of this essay, published in last month’s issue, recounted how the process of estrangement…
Pacifism, Just War & the Gulf: An Exchange
IJanuary 30, 1991 Dear Richard, Your column in the Wall Street Journal (January 23, 1991), “Just War…
Olive Bed
“There was a bole of an olive tree with long leaves growing Strongly in the courtyard, and…
1492 and All That
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby kirkpatrick saleknopf, 453 pages, $24.95 As every…
Alasdair MacIntyre’s University
Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry by alasdair macintyre university of notre dame press, 241 pages, $24.95…
Evangelical Growth and Politics in Latin America
Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth by david stoll university of california press,…
What Crisis in the Black Church?
The Black Church in the African American Experience by c. eric lincoln and lawrence h. mamiya duke…
Across the Gulf of Faith
Jewish Perspectives on Christianity edited by franz a. rothschild crossroad, 363 pages, $29.50 The interfaith dialogue between…
Boys and Girls: The Long Way Back to the Obvious
Surveys provide additional evidence that Americans are returning to “traditional values.” Traditional values is usually a synonym…
Editorial: Christian Mission and the Third Millennium
Christianity is an inherently missionary faith. According to the Gospel of Matthew, the last word of the…
