April 1995
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Clearing the Mind of Cant
The Public Square With the enormous attention paid The Bell Curve, the book by Richard Herrnstein and…
Dying Like a Dog
Hunger and thirst, starvation and dehydration—ugly words to most of us, bringing images of tormenting weakness, agonizing…
The Hope of Heaven, The Hope of Earth
Many people today are worried about a certain politicization of the churches, or of some groups in…
Viktor Frankl at Ninety: An Interview
Did you ever hear from Otto?” I asked Viktor Frankl. Readers of Frankl’s classic Man’s Search for…
The Ultimately Liberal Condition
Things are in the saddle and ride mankind,” complained Ralph Waldo Emerson a century and a half…
Lutheran Blues
I was born into a Lutheran Christian family, was baptized and confirmed within the Lutheran Church, and,…
John Brown Redux
Pro-life forces are on the defensive because of abortion clinic killings. They stand accused of encouraging violence…
Poverty and the Partisan Press
It is all very curious. Once it became clear that the Republicans had won power on November…
The Suicide State
The Roman Catholic Church called it a sin. The American Medical Association described it as unethical. C.…
The Vernacularist Illusion
In recent decades, both among Roman Catholics and Protestants, there has been much talk about liturgical reform…
Life on the Cutting Edge
The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History Edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson…
The Convergence of the Twain?
Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to an American Public Philosophy Edited by R. Bruce Douglass and David HollenbachCambridge University…
Reversing the Charges
The Fabricated Luther: The Rise and Fall of the Shirer Myth By Uwe Siemon-Netto Concordia, 186 pages,…
A Judaism in His Image
The Sacred Chain: The History of the Jews By Norman F. Cantor Harper Collins 472 pages, $35…
Remembering the Titanic Every April 15
Remember us, the voices sang. The life-rafts drifted. Nearer My God to Thee. The big ship tilted…
Stripped
Stripped in the presence of him for whom pretense is offense, bared intentions stand stark- till He…
The Filling
Cobwebs jammed the punched out holes of the handlegrip. It was a galvanized piece, except where the…
Resurrection Follies: After a Jim Morphesis Diptych
In the diptych, I see two Messiahs: one just prior to his closing breath and another exactly…
