January 1996
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Anti-Christian America?
Anti-Christian America? As usual, I find myself in substantial agreement with much that Midge Decter writes (“A…
John Paul II Plays “The Capital of the World”
The Public Square In a rare departure from the utter originality of these pages, parts of this…
The Christian University: Eleven Theses
I am honored to join in the prayer and reflection marking the inauguration of a new president…
The Christian University: A Call to Counterrevolution
It is well to remember, as we contemplate the relation of the university and church, that the…
To Be a Prophet for the People
In the year 1165, an agonizing question confronted Moroccan Jewry. A fanatical Muslim sect, the Almohads, had…
The Abortion Cocktail
In April 1970, in the pages of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Review, I reviewed the history of attempts…
What Happened at Beijing
“You are going to Beijing to be witnesses,” the Holy See’s Undersecretary for Relations with States told…
Post-Communism and Its Discontents
In the exciting days of November 1989, during the occupation strike at Charles University in Prague, the…
Islam Partially Perceived
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Edited by John L. Esposito. Oxford University Press. Four…
Starting Over
The thing I miss most about academic life”summers aside”is its constant promise of new beginnings. Each semester…
Hard to Remember
“It’s easier for you in the West,” Baerbel Hintze says. “You’ve been educated to think critically. I…
Swearing to Life
In 1972, deep in the library of the Mayo Clinic, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun found an…
Berlin Again and Again
One of the (regrettably few) benefits of growing old is the way in which incidents in one’s…
Belonging
Theorizing Citizenship Edited by Ronald Beiner State University of New York Press, 335 pages, $19.95 What does…
Feeling Good
Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments By R. Jay Wallace Harvard University Press, 275 pages, $39.95 In the…
The Marrying Kind
Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality . By Andrew Sullivan Knopf, 209 pages, $22 What would life…
The Limits of Pragmatism
Overcoming Law By Richard A. Posner Harvard University Press, 605 pages, $39.95 Richard Posner is one of…
Briefly Noted 122
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self By Ruth Padel Princeton University…
The Gathered Community
American Congregations. Edited by James P. Wind and James W. Lewis University of Chicago Press Volume 1:…
Beyond Pluralism
Salvations:Truth and Difference in Religion by s. mark heim orbis, 248 pages, $19.95 Christians have always been…
The Grudge
When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way…
Subway
It is stuffed full with thick, shapeless coats, this narrow closet you’ve been banished to. Feel your…
Bishop Colenso on the Pentateuch
Sometimes I wake at night to listen To Father Walter’s coughing in the Next room; tomorrow he…
After a Dream of Clare and Francis of Assisi
Alone at the edge of the sea he sets the stone in place. Always the last stone…
