June/July 1996
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Marriage, Divorce, and “Pro-Family”
The Public Square Among the most powerful social and political forces of our time is the “pro-family”…
The Legal Logic of Euthanasia
Critics of Roe v. Wade have long contended that the principles used to justify abortion would soon…
The Soul of Man Under Federalism
It was not very long ago that most scholars and political observers assumed federalism to be an…
How to Think About Secularism
Whatever is meant by secularization, few will dispute that in this century the public culture has become…
God and Gender in Judaism
Some time this year the Reform movement will issue its new High Holy Day prayerbook, for the…
Mock Medicine, Mock Law
The first thing the coroner noticed was the bright pink blush of the cheeks—the artificial pink that…
One Angry Man
It is Tuesday morning in Holy Week and my mood is appropriately somber. Not, I fear, out…
DNA: The Message in the Message
Christians who work in the natural sciences are dogged by a persistent bogeyman: a singular creature called…
Two Cheers for Class
The human sciences in America are in a state of advanced and seemingly irreversible decay. One look…
When Words Kill
Even before Yigal Amir was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, a related…
Faith and History
The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth By Ben Witherspoon III InterVarsity, 250…
Onward Christian Soldiers
God’s Chinese Son: The Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan By Jonathon D. Spence Norton, 400 pages, $27.50…
Neoconservatives and Neoscholastics
Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America Edited by Mary Jo and R. Scott Appleby Indiana University Press,…
Homer for Today
The Husbands: An Account of Books 3 and 4 of Homer’s Illiad By Christopher Logue Farrar, Sraus…
She Writes of Her Garden (June 1930)
My Grandmother writes of her garden wallflowers & cornflowers from early April showers like beautiful wounds healing…
Almost Taking Eucharist
(at the funeral mass of a friend’s mother) First of all, I am protestant. I protest everything:…
Full Moon
after Rilke Put out my eyes, I can see your face. Close me ears, I can hear…
Regarding a Co-Worker’s Kindergarten Report Card
The nun, you said, bad-marked your report card because you could not answer why why why God…
What is Essential
Dead trees know, being wind-taught and carved by time. No longer desparate wih foliage, their sap clotted,…
