March 1998
Critical Realignments
The Public Square In this space I recently paid tribute to the late Francis Schaeffer, noting, among…
The Irony of American Power
I The overarching theme of twentieth-century geopolitics has been America’s success in prevailing over its competitors for…
The Blind Programmer
How the Mind Works . By Steven Pinker. Norton. 660 pages, $29.95. The MIT linguist Noam Chomsky…
The Ways We Worship
One weekend in that tumultuous year 1968 I was on call at a parish church outside of…
The Jogger’s Wave
Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased,” says the author of the Book…
The Music of “Having Church”
“Outrage!” “Shocking insensitivity!” “Boycott!” Art, in recent years, has raised any number of protests, but this time…
The Second Time as Farce: Galileo Redux
According to Bob Fletcher, a “full-time militia staff researcher,” the government of the United States “has developed…
Passing in Review
In this month’s While We’re At It, RJN makes passing reference to Christopher Caldwell’s astute article in…
The Neo-Augustinian Temptation
There is a rising strand of Christian social thought inspired by a fresh reading of Augustine’s City…
What We Are and What We Ought To Be
The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God’s Assistance By John E. Hare Oxford University Press.…
Beyond Supersessionism
The God of Israel and Christian Theology By R. Kendall Soulen Fortress, 195 pp. $19 paper. This…
Briefly Noted 144
A Generation at Risk: Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval. By Paul R. Amato and…
Apologetics Without Apologies
Is There God? By Richard Swinburne Oxford University Press 144 pp. $25 Apologetics is experiencing a small…
Tu Quoque
Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia By Russell T. McCutcheon…
Church and Academy
Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition: Contemporary Challenges Edited by Patrick W. Carey and Earl C. Muller…
Psalm 144
My fingers twang the bowstring. Arrows flying from the tower Land whole armies at my feet. What…
The Waltz We Were Born For
Wind chimes ping and tangle on the patio. In gusty winds this wild, sparrow hawks hover and…
Odin’s Eye
Odin didn’t have to give it up, you know; didn’t have to pluck out that Nordic orb,…