Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Legal Ethics—Worlds in Collision
Chicago’s financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet…
Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You…
Woodstock Comes to Washington
If any further proof were needed that the Woodstock generation has taken over the federal government, President…
A Peculiar Little Test
Every two or three years, at a small, elite New England university, I offer a graduate-level course…
Sorting Us Out
All persons of good will have reason to rejoice over the progress made in recent years in…
The Big Lie Continued
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by deborah lipstadt free press, 278 pages,…
A President in Process
It turns out, in retrospect, to have been a most ironically timed meeting. The White House Communications…
Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning
It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of…
Why Churches Fail
A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation by wade clark roof harpercollins,…
Religion’s Bad Press
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good…
Homesick in Miami
The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami by david rieff simon & schuster, 220 pages, $21…
The Bible, Corrected
I Corinthians 6:9 Do not be deceived. Neither sexists, nor racists, nor ageists, nor looksists, nor ableists shall…
War in the Classroom
Battleground: One Mother’s Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen…
Poisoned Eros
Love and Friendship by allan bloom simon & schuster, 590 pages, $25 “Christianity gave Eros poison to…
Getting Real
A few months ago my stepdaughter turned eleven. On the verge of adolescence, Stella wonders daily about…
