June/July 1993
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A Word on “The Competition”
The Public Square So it has come to this. Fifty-two years ago, the great Reinhold Niebuhr and…
God and Evolution: An Exchange
I Howard J. Van Till Although the rhetoric Phillip E. Johnson employs in his article “Creator or…
To Read and to Live
In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…
Jewish Ethics Engaged
Jewish Social Ethics by david novak oxford university press, 252 pages, $39.95 The renowned scholar of Talmudic…
Men and Women—Can We Be Friends?
In Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, Socrates and Critobulus are discussing household management, in which the wife plays a major…
Living at the Borders: Eastern Orthodoxy and World
Five years ago, well before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Geographic Society had anticipated…
Athens and Jerusalem, Again
President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things:…
The Newtape File IV
Dear Nephew, my impish one, You seem to have grasped the point about eviscerating distinctions of any…
The Problem of Power
The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel edited by dennis hale and marc landy…
Beyond the Mainline Tale
The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers In Our Religious Economy by roger finke and rodney…
Jonathan Edwards & the Public Square
One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards by gerald r. mcdermott pennsylvania state…
A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress
Saints & Sinners: Walter Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Anton LeVay, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox by…
Drouth
I invoke the air in rage, am like a cancer in a cage— only myself to burn,…
Music of the Spheres
In the beginning there was no beginning; no no; no was; no in; no there— nothing that…
Simple Anna
Simple Anna liked the words although she didn’t understand what many of them meant. Her man sometimes…
For Duns Scotus
Under the dome-sky oneness translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness…
Possessed
Lord have mercy on my son for he is a lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he…
