February 1991
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The Theses of Martin Luther King, Jr.
News stories of recent months underscore the fact that the place of Martin Luther King, Jr. in…
Mortality: The Measure of Our Days
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. —King Lear For…
Judaism, Zionism, Messianism: Telling Them Apart
The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get…
Honor in the University
We live in a time when ethics has become big business: medical schools hire medical ethicists, business…
Theology Through the Looking Glass
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Alice has been having quite a run through the Garden…
Leaping Headfirst Into the Smith Trap
Richard John Neuhaus has joined the chorus of those singing a lament to the death of religious…
All You Needed to Know You Didn’t Learn in Sunday School
The Search Institute is located in Minneapolis, and it succeeded in inducing the Lilly Endowment and six…
A Government for Real People
As a geographer, I learned years ago that my fellow countrymen are not only uninformed about the…
The Do-It-Yourself Catholic KiddieKism*
Q. Who made you? A. (Melissa Murphy, Age 10): Who makes me you should say! I co-creates me…
The Things that Remain: An Episcopalian’s Credo
Fifteen years ordained and still serving in the parish. Still switching on the coffee at dawn Sunday…
God’s Spy: Malcolm Muggeridge, 1903–1990
In the course of a very long life, Malcolm Muggeridge made many enemies, but he surely made…
“J” in Bloom
The Book of J translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg interpreted by Harold Bloom Grove Weidenfeld,…
Race and Urban Politics
The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by Jim Sleeper W.…
Populist Protestantism
The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan Hatch Yale University Press, 312 pages, $25 In 1802 a…
Back to Fundamentals
The Fundamentalist Phenomenon: A View from Within; A Response from Without edited by Norman J. Cohen Eerdmans,…
Mueca a la Muerte: Defiance in a Grimace
That the world should end in an orgy of pain was inconceivable at my conception in the Panama…
Paraphrase of Some Famous Lines in Spanish Literature
I will become dust and you will become dust and ashes our tongues and ashes our eyes but, ever…
Complex Phenomena
The rules of chaos are simple: A mountain is never a perfect cone. A lake is never really a…
Abortion Politics
A funny thing happened on the way to last November’s elections. Pundits who throughout the summer had…
