Theology
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Left Out
Encyclopedia of the American Left edited by mary jo buhle, paul buhle, and dan georgakas garland, 928…
The Death Watch
The Public Square We need not speculate about what may be down “the slippery slope” on which we find…
An Old Radio in Atlantic City
It drew people to it like a fire, / The needle floating up and down its dial,…
When Church-State Conflicts Aren’t
Here is a review in a national publication of a book about religion in American public life.…
Conflict of Canons
In his 1989 novel The Storyteller, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist and erstwhile presidential candidate, describes the Machiguenga, a…
Walker Percy: An Exchange
Joseph Schwartz: Walker Percy’s Wise Answers It is unfortunate that Paul Greenberg’s appreciation of Walker Percy in…
Of Rome and Runnymede
Curious. Why should the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe all see fit to carry the story of the…
“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…
Judaism and American Public Life: A Symposium
In the half-century now past, the dominant view among American Jews was that religion should be rigorously…
She Turned to Me
She turned to me one night as if to say: / “I know.” And though I waited…
The Churches & War in the Gulf
About the public debate preceding Operation Desert Storm, two things may be said with some confidence. First,…
Bilbao Alone
Some of the sounds here are familiar: / Vivaldi plays the same in this language, / keys…
History According to the Village Atheist
The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century…
Mueca a la Muerte: Defiance in a Grimace
That the world should end in an orgy of pain / was inconceivable at my conception in…
Honor in the University
We live in a time when ethics has become big business: medical schools hire medical ethicists, business…
