February 1993
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February Letters 93
Abortion Wars (cont.) I read “Abortion and a Nation at War” in your October 1992 issue with…
When Shepherds Are Sheep
A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops by Thomas J. Reese Sheed & Ward,…
The Ruling “We” Of The American Jewish Congress
The Public Square Some writers on the First Amendment, including this editor, have long made the argument…
Homosexuality in Uniform: Is It Time?
The author released the original version of this position paper concerning U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) policy…
The Bible: Unexamined Commitments of Criticism
Ten years ago I had an experience that made me vividly aware of the two worlds with…
Generic Male, Endangered Gender?
“Just like a man!” The unspoken judgment trembled palpably on the airwaves as four powerful women—a television…
Social Ethics in a Post-Socialist World
The title of these observations contains two assumptions—that now is indeed a post-socialist era and that there…
Where You Lead I Will Follow?
Several observers have pointed out the increasing gap in social and political attitudes and theological commitments between…
The Brown-Headed Cowbird
There has always been a segment of the American population that wants to dump the “Star Spangled…
Taking Dialogue Seriously
The Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective by J. A. Dinoia, O.P. Catholic University Press, 200 pages,…
A Contested Legacy
John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation edited by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth L. Grasso…
Taking Fundamentalism Seriously
Fundamentalisms Observed edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby University of Chicago Press, 872 pages,…
Niebuhr the Teacher
Professor Reinhold Niebuhr: A Mentor to the Twentieth Century by Ronald H. Stone Westminster/John Knox Press, 284…
The Use and Abuse of Freud
Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud’s Theory on American Thought and Culture by E. Fuller Torrey,…
Judaism and Postmodernity
Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew by Eugene Borowitz Jewish Publication Society, 319 pages,…
The Providence of Books
“It is sometimes given to us, this lovely emptiness, and then the Holy Spirit can fill it…
Intense Transforming Care: On the Way Back
Slowly: out of that sleep that numbs the knife edge, I come home to a various world,…
Tokyo Rain
With our cameras and crumpled clothes we wait for the bus. We rush to each “beauty spot”…
