April 1997
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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God and Bigotry at Yale
The Public Square God and Bigotry at Yale Yale Law School, like others, makes provisions for prospective…
Creatures of Place and Time: Reflections on Moving
My family and I moved last summer, moving to Valparaiso, Indiana from Oberlin, Ohio, where we had…
Humanism After Tillich
The most creative dimensions of Western spirituality are rooted in a deep interaction between the biblically informed…
Same-Sex Marriage: As Hawaii Goes …
“Whatever your view of same-sex marriage,” declared Andrew Sullivan in The New Republic, “in all likelihood, within…
Values, Virtues, and John Paul II
Few words can rival “values” for popular appeal in the 1990s. Heightened awareness of the link between…
The Myth of Soulless Women
Josh Billings remarked profoundly that “the trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that…
My Own Private Rushmore
It’s fun playing God—even in the limited form of offering grand historical judgments. My introduction to godlike…
Tobacco and the Soul
The current brouhaha over smoking has made everyone painfully aware of tobacco’s effects on the body, but…
Before Foucault
Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism By Mark Royden Winchell. University Press of Virginia, 510…
Briefly Noted 135
The Lord By Romano Guardini. Translated by Elinor Castendyk Briefs. Regnery, 629 pages, $14.95 paper. These meditations…
The Styles of Modern Politics
The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism By Michael Oakeshott, Edited by Timothy Fuller. Yale…
Second Thoughts of a Secularist
Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents By Guenter Lewy. Eerdmans, 160 pages, $18. In…
Augustine Revisited
Love and Saint Augustine By Hannah Arendt. Edited by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark. University…
At the Border of Church and State
When Sacred and Secular Mix: Religious Nonprofit Organizations and Public Money By Stephen V. Monsma. Rowman and…
Baptism
Honorarius handed his robe to the catechumen And picked around the bones of the Creed. These are…
Matthew 3:7-12
This brood of vipers, fleeing from the coming fall, are torn between the need they own, and…
The Incarnate Creator
Light falls on the door in an oblique plane of cream like something in Vermeer, and comes…
