LGBTQ
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Death of the Goddess
In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth by tikva…
An Incredible Lightness of Being
Intellectual Memoirs, 1936–1938 by mary mccarthy harcourt brace jovanovich, 114 pages, $15.95 The novelist and critic Mary…
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…
TV’s America
Watching America: What Television Tells Us About Our Lives by S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, and…
Reason Public and Private: The Pannenberg Project
There are numerous obstacles to making the connections between religion and public life. For some moderns, a…
Editorial: AIDS: Deadly Confusions Compounded
R eaders whose minds have not been numbed by all the media-generated sensations since then may be…
The Mindless Self: Freud Triumphant
In the heat of the anguished nineteenth-century debate over evolutionary theory, Samuel Butler declared that Darwin had…
Man and Woman: An Old Story
This essay originated as the sixth annual Erasmus Lecture, sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Public…
Looking at Islam After Kipling and Hesse
Books on Islam, we are told, are enjoying brisk sales. For reasons related to the imperialist past…
The Constitution and the Erotic Self
The history books tell us that Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian nationalist who shot and killed Austrian Archduke…
Reviving the Missionary Mandate
The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described…
Man, Woman, and Public Policy
Our topic is sexual identity and the meaning of gender in elite public discourse. Few topics are…
Pop Goes the Culture
We made a mistake in a recent public symposium by saying, in response to a question, that…
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…
