January 1992
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Salman Rushdie Gets Religion
The protagonist of No Longer At Ease by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe is a young man…
Can Notre Dame Be Saved?
I am a member of the United Methodist Church and a graduate student of philosophy at the…
Despising Our Mothers, Despising Ourselves
Today’s women are the victims of the second biggest con game in history . . . .…
Writing Christian History
The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity edited by John McManners Oxford University Press, 724 pages, $45 This…
The Real John Dewey
This writer has sometimes puzzled friends and critics alike by expressing a firm, though qualified, admiration for…
Marburg and Modernity
A history of the relation of sacramental theology and practice to Western intellectual and cultural history has…
Reform Judaism: Undone by Revival
In the 1950s, only some forty years ago, the voice of rejoicing and salvation could be heard…
Ediorial: Moral Credibility After the Evil Empire: The Witness of IRD
We are a month late in noting an anniversary that should not pass unnoted. 1981 witnessed the…
Trading Needles
It was the standard civil disobedience defense: they did it not for themselves, but in response to…
A New John Dewey?
This writer has sometimes puzzled friends and critics alike by expressing a firm, though qualified, admiration for…
Death in the Netherlands
Regulating Death: Euthanasia and the Case of the Netherlands by Carlos Gomez, M.D., foreword by Leon R.…
Postmodern Christian Traditionalism?
Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason by John Milbank Basil Blackwell, 443 pages, $64.95 John Milbank…
A Communitarian Lament
The Good Society by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Stephen M.…
On Viewing the Paintings of Bruno Liljefors
How good and fine it would have been, to be out upon the wild loon swellsAnd watch…
Winter Smoke
From the stack outside the window’s frame,White smoke, mostly steam, breaks hard acrossA bright blue square of…
Jonah Fishing
I fish this bay all morning.High clouds cap me, a light breeze tickles the water’s skin.Fall’s…
Courtesy
First snow falls in kindagreement to timeless ways.Gratia plena. Our Lady of Careis a kindly countenancesad as…
