November 1994
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Choosing Choice
Choosing Choice John E. Coons (“Is Choice Still Choice?” August/September) writes that polls show support for choice…
Science, Religion, and Volleyball
The Public Square Science is science and religion is religion and never the twain shall meet. It…
On Bringing One’s Life to a Point
In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife
It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch…
Gay Marriage: Reimaging Church History
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe By John Boswell Villard Books. 412 pp. $25 Ancient in origin, same-sex…
The Second Coming
A few years ago, when the English novelist A. N. Wilson announced his repudiation of Christianity, the…
The Church-State Game: A Symposium on Kiryas Joel
On June 27, 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Kiryas…
School’s Out
This fall Valparaiso University decided (not unreasonably) that five-and-a-half years of leave of absence is enough, and…
Right-Thinking About the Religious Right
It is amusing to see how alarmed all right-thinking people have become about that menacing phenomenon called…
The Green Crusade
In February, readers of the New York Times were enticed by this puzzling headline: “Clinton to Order…
Submitting Freedom
Pragmatism is Western philosophy that seeks to speak once again to the practical needs of everyday life,…
Briefly Noted 110
The Ground We Share: Everyday Practice, Christian and Buddhist by Robert Aitken and David Steindl-Rast Triumph Books.…
George Grant
In considering Canada’s contribution to twentieth-century intellectual life, one might think of the novels of Margaret Atwood…
Essays in Understanding
Books about Hannah Arendt have been proliferating at a brisk pace. Now there is a new book…
