February 1992
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The Hidden America
More Americans attend church or synagogue each week of the year than attend professional sports events in…
Rights and Wrongs About Rights
Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse by Mary Ann Glendon Free Press, 288 pages, $22.95 One…
Confessions of a Rootless Cosmopolitan Jew
I, the grandson of devout Orthodox Jews, am watching my younger daughter being confirmed in the Lutheran…
The Lutheran Difference
To the extent that Lutherans are noticed at all by non-Lutherans in America, impressions can be wildly…
The Catholic Public Servant
The Supreme Court is not exempt from the law of unintended consequences. The Court may have anticipated…
A New Order of Religious Freedom
More than he wanted to be remembered for having been President, Mr. Jefferson wanted to be remembered…
Animal Rights, Human Rights
The power of the movement for animal rights—a movement that until recently was located for most people…
Always to Care, Never to Kill:
The following declaration was produced by the Ramsey Colloquium of the Institute on Religion and Public Life…
Consequences of Columbus
Just when we were convinced that Newsweek, like its counterpart Time, is an essentially superficial magazine for…
Blue Ridge Modernity Blues
It’s a mild winter evening in the Blue Ridge mountains. The faint sounds of banjo and fiddle…
Editorial: AIDS: Deadly Confusions Compounded
R eaders whose minds have not been numbed by all the media-generated sensations since then may be…
Church and World in Christian Antiquity
The End of Ancient Christianity by robert markus cambridge university press, 258 pages, $49.50 In fourth-century Syria…
Evangelism’s Premier Prophet
A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story by William Martin William Morrow, 735 pages, $25 The…
Evangelicals and Capitalism
With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism by Craig M. Gay, foreword…
The Earnest Methodist
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: Paladin of Liberal Protestantismby robert moats millerabingdon press, 624 pages, $29.95 Garfield Bromley Oxnam…
The Body Has a Clarity
The body has a clarity Between high and low hierarchies tenebras et luces. He would be undone…
On the Commitment of a Friend to a Mental Institution
You heard the voices waftingBeyond the mechanical street. Attending seraphs sighingYou caught their half-notesIn the narrows of…
To the Professor—A Final Query
As you lie there(bedridden, they say),Dull eyes fixing on objects deemed less than worthy of ordinary…
Extensions: In the Cleveland Museum of Art
In the din of agesso quiet only the squeakof charcoal sneakersand the stentorian tutelageof living massesobtrude—goddesswith a…
