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Letters

1997 December Letters

Various

The San Francisco Solution? Thank you for publishing Archbishop William J. Levada’s “The San Francisco Solution”(August/September), on…

Essays

A More Real World

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square A More Real World The day Mother Teresa died, an editor at USA Today…

Memoirs of a Catholic Boyhood

Andrew J. Bacevich

The muddy Illinois River ranks among the least distinguished of the Mississippi’s tributaries, a brown expanse of…

Law and the Christian Story

William J. Stuntz

Conservative Christians have in recent years devoted a good deal of energy and attention to criticizing lawyers…

Christ and Creation’s Longing

Richard John Neuhaus

In 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book-length critique of “the ecology movement” that…

Augustine’s World and Ours

Glenn Tinder

One of the most striking differences between constitutional democracies and tyrannies in our time pertains to certain…

Russia Repents?

Vladimir Osherov

For anyone watching events in Russia, the confrontation between “reformers,” led by Boris Yeltsin, and their opponents,…

Opinion

America’s Messiah

Michael Linton

For musicians, Christmas means Messiah. This is not a comment upon musicians’ religiosity, but rather upon their…

The Problem with Salad Bowl Religion

Jon D. Levenson

I wonder what my rebbe ancestors would think of me,” writes a young Unitarian Universalist minister in…

Of Bible Codes and Idols

Benjamin Wittes

Just to set the phrase “Torah Code” here evenly spaced at ten characters, I consumed a lot…

Nice People and the Rest of Us

James Nuechterlein

Politics in the West has in recent years lost much of its ideological edge. The collapse of…

Untangling Evolution

Stephen M. Barr

There’s no denying that historically evolution has been harmful to religious faith. It has contributed to undermining…

Reviews

In His Steps

Gilbert Meilaender

The Moral Vision of the New Testament by Richard B. Hays. HarperSanFrancisco, 508 pages, $25. This book…

Ambivalent Obsession

James Alison

The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism by Regina M. Schwartz. University of Chicago Press,…

Briefly Noted 141

Various

Near Unto God by Abraham Kuyper; adapted by James C. Schaap Eerdmans, 235 pages, $14 paper Recent…

None Dare Call It Apostasy

Joop Koopman

The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism by Michael W. Cuneo.Oxford University…

Challenging the Modern

Patrick G. D. Riley

Ernest L. Fortin: Collected Essays edited by J. Brian Benestad. Three volumes. Rowman; Littlefield.Vol. I, 349 pages, Vol.…

Not a Ghost of a Chance

Robert Jeffrey

Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser. Doubleday, 347 pages, $27.95. The…

Poetry

Nativity

Carl Winderl

if I lived in Seattle at Christmastime I’d have committed suicide a long time ago it’s bad…

Diaspora

Joseph Bottum

On the giant’s hill, in the child’s eye, the old house stands hermaphrodite, the mother-father rolled in…

If God Is That Sublime Moment

Warren L. Molton

If God is that sublime moment in the story when Jesus said, “And his father seeing him…