June/July 1992
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Letter from Jerusalem
To come to Jerusalem from Paris, or even Tel Aviv, is to succumb to the uncanny feeling…
What Americans Really Think About Abortion
At the foundation of any democratic society is the principle that the laws that order our lives…
Marriage in Counterpoint and Harmony
If one were to seek a connecting thread that runs through the biblical witness, a good candidate…
Ludwig Wittgenstein Confesses
Along with Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally considered to be one of the two greatest philosophers…
Abortion and Political Compromise
Roe v. Wade is clearly in for substantial pruning—possibly even an outright overruling—in the near future. Thus…
Feminism and Feminism
We get these letters saying that we should not refer to “radical feminism” since all feminism is…
Being Jewish in Public
For a long time, precisely as long as Judaism was marginal to my life, the strict separation…
Hindu Nationalism, Indian Democracy
India’s post-independence generation of leaders sought to keep religion at arm’s length from politics, regarding religion as…
A Tale of Two Bishops
In the years 1975-76, Catholics attending Mass anywhere in the state of Montana would have heard the…
New Age Mush
Belonging To The Universe by Fritjof Capra and David Steindl-Rast Harper San Francisco, 217 pages, $18.95 In…
The Blackboard Bungle
Ed School Follies:The Miseducation Of America’s Teachers by Rita Kramer Free Press, 228 pages, $22.95 In her…
Character and Poverty
Poverty And Compassion:The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb Knopf, 475 pages, $30 Gertrude…
A Lutheran Affirmation
No Other Gospel! Christianity Among The World Religions by carl e. braaten fortress press, 142 pages, $10.95…
Church-State Conundrums
Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church/State Relations by Derek Davis Prometheus Books,…
The 1960s Revisited
The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy Of Good Intentions by Hillel Levine and Lawrence…
Trespassers
Half a day’s detour to Gran Quivira—and we arrive, near sunset,to find a locked gate across the…
By the Road South of Fairplay, Georgia
It assaults the eye, the Ponder familygraveyard, with twin obelisks visiblehalf a mile away. Inside its fence,weeds,…
