December 1996
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Jews for Jesus, Established A.D. 32
The Public Square There are hot buttons and then there are nuclear triggers. In the latter category,…
Our Culture, Our World
For students of strategy, the most persistent controversies revolve around elementary issues. Is strategy an art or…
Redemptive Sex at the Met
Celebrating twenty-five years at the world’s greatest opera house, the New York Metropolitan Opera closed its season…
Inconvenient Lives
Judging from the evidence, Americans do not view human life as sacrosanct. We engage in a variety…
Population and the Wealth of Nations
By any measure, the future for this Asian country looked bleak. Enormously overcrowded, its normal population had…
Jews in Multicultural America
For some decades, American Jews have made sense of the relation between their Americanness and their Jewishness…
The Pope in Germany
This was the third pastoral visit of John Paul II to Germany. When he first came in…
Editor’s Notes
Like coyotes and roadrunners, writers and editors are natural enemies. Writers suspect that all editors are misanthropes…
The Politics of Baptism
In the second chapter of his letter to the Galatians, Paul recounts how on a visit to…
Religion in a Public Voice
Religion and Medical Ethics: Looking Backward, Looking Forward Edited by Allen Verhey Eerdmans, 160 pages, $18 As…
Performing the Scriptures
Virtuoso Theology: The Bible and Its Interpretations By Frances Young Pilgrim Press, 198 pages, $15.95 In August…
Jeremiah in South Dakota
The Cloister Walkby kathleen norris riverhead books, 304 pages, $23.95 I had read Norris’ previous book, Dakota:…
Tough Love
Renewing American Compassion: How Compassion for the Needy Can Turn Ordinary Citizens into Heroes By Marvin Olasky…
The Third Day of Christmas
Out of the mouths of Holy Innocents the wailings of our weakness, our Herod knees bent now…
