October 1990
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Editorial: Repenting of America 1492–1992
Congress has created the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission. To date, twenty-two states have established similar commissions…
Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism
The orthodox explanation of what is wrong with creationism goes something like this: Science has accumulated overwhelming…
Heaven Is My Home
It sometimes seems to me through the mists of memory that I spent my childhood in church.…
What Families Are For
In his engagingly titled book, What’s Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton argued that his fellow…
Abortion and the Neutral State
The search for the American political mainstream is a risky enterprise. It can be a salutary and…
Religion and the New South Africa
Since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the prospects for peaceful change in South Africa have seemingly improved.…
Polygamy, Peyote, and the Public Peace
No one should be surprised that decisions of great constitutional moment are sometimes occasioned by cases that…
The Demon in the Jewish Soul
Demons surface. For most people, demons surface in nightmares, but for us, for Jews, demons seem to…
The Educational Vise
The widely noted appearance of John Chubb and Terry Moe’s Politics, Markets & America’s Schools reminds us…
Where Babies Come From
Recent reports from a French laboratory contain some good news and some bad news for the prochoice…
Feminism: Beyond the Second Stage
Barbara Bush finally got to speak at the Wellesley commencement last June, despite protests from 150 seniors…
The Real John Courtney Murray
The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray by robert w. mcelroy…
The Social History of American Religion
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People by jon butler harvard university press, 360…
Faith and Politics
The Political Meaning of Christianity: An Interpretation by glenn tinder louisiana state university press, 257pages, $29.95 I…
A Minimalist Aristotle?
Innocence and Experience by stuart hampshire harvard university press, 195 pages, $20 Stuart Hampshire begins his new…
The Organbuilders
The name of the one organbuilder was Craft, the other Dream, both descendants of an ur-figure. Creation. To graft metal…
After the Wedding: Diving Off Isla Mujeres
It’s been three days now. We continue to find splinters of rice clinging to our scalps; piercing no skin…
Insomnia
1. I start to dream I am waking and wake with a start from the dream. Shadows gather…
Nine Numbers
On card after card he sees it. Along with a harsh identity photograph And his preposterous signature, A black line…
