October 1993
Recruiting for the Revolution
The Public Square The Nation is ecstatic. Its cover story “The Gay Moment” evinces high confidence that…
When the Court Should Not Be Obeyed
I At the end of its 1992 term, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Planned…
Evangelizing Liberalism
In the March issue of First Things , Benton Johnson, Dean R. Hoge, and Donald A. Luidens…
King Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family
The practice of combining love and justice in the governance of relationships between parents and children is…
Evangelical Theology in Crisis
No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology by david f. wells eerdmans, 318 pages,…
Crime and the Cure of the Soul
Those of us who believe that our social and political order rests on moral foundations applaud William…
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected
(chanted to no tune in particular) BEFORE: by Julia Ward Howe Mine eyes have seen the glory…
After Hell
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…
Democracy’s Discontents
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by robert hughes oxford university press, 210 pages, $19.95 This…
Syllabus Errorum
God’s Politician: Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church, and the New World Order by david willey…
Tiresias
I have walked now for days on end with my eyes closed, thoughts centered at the point…
Bat
I hang upsidedown from the roof of your skull sleeping—my wings crossed over me like Pharaoh’s arms,…
Messianic Secret
At a parish council meeting, some women clustering together decide, whispering so as not to be overheard…
In a Dark Country Night
I see one bumblebee heading over the fence and into the doorway of this shrunken Old Field’s…