Aug/Sept 1995
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Letters August/September
Defending Distributism Rambling in the April Public Square the other day, minding my business and enjoying the…
A Sense of Change Both Ominous and Promising
The Public Square The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), with about a million members, arises out of…
What T.S. Eliot Almost Believed
What passes in the human heart is known to God alone, and the private spiritual life of…
Abandoning Children to Their Rights
In 1989 the United Nations General Assembly adopted, without a vote, a new Convention on the Rights…
Physics and the Mind of God: The Templeton Prize Address
It is both an honor and a pleasure for me to speak in this world-famous Abbey, just…
John Paul II and the Truth about Freedom
The rootedness of freedom in the truth has been a constant and central theme in the writings…
Murder in the Sudan
In the mid-1980s, it was Ethiopia. Next, it was Bosnia, then Somalia, and later Rwanda. In each…
Waco, Wackos, and Politics
First Things normally takes quiet pride in its disregard of the merely topical. We write and edit,…
Legitimate Mothers
Contemporary feminism began some decades ago with what Betty Friedan called the “feminine mystique”-the notion that women…
Why Protestants Still Protest
Several years ago, I did some research on Roman Catholics who had converted to conservative Protestant churches.…
The Road to Bosnia
The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me…
Why Protestants Protest Too Much
The man sitting next to me on the plane was pleasant enough. He was well dressed, had…
The Conundrum of Historical Consciousness
From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism By Ismar Schorsch University Press of…
Keeping the Conversation Going
One By One From the Inside OutBy Glenn C. Loury Free Press 332 pages, $25 Subtitled “Essays…
America’s Communal Origins
The Myth Of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought. By Barry Alan Shain Princeton…
Only a God Can Save Us
Heidegger and Christianity By John Macquarrie. Continuum 144 pages, $19.95 Of the seven lectures (each of which…
Eros and Rage
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics By Martha Nussbaum Princeton University Press 558…
Long and Short
Mitch said: “I’m trying hard to live To seventy.” I think about it constantly: How half A…
The Theodicies of the Rural
We drive nails into the hooves, twist off the horns with worn vise grips, separate mates, pluck…
What Ceremony Else?
He said simply they’d always be with us, Astounding one with such nerve, cold foresight -All generated…
The Locker and the Mill
Christ’s body: Earth’s first fruit. Crushed grape, locked; Winnowed wheat, ground. Dark, damp cellar Hot, dry oven…
