October 1996
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October Letters
The Judicial Culture of Death Michael Uhlmann’s “The Legal Logic of Euthanasia” (June/July) is an outstanding essay…
Islam Cornered
The Public Square I am impressed by how often it happens; when I lecture on religion in…
Not So Christian America
In 1988, the highly respected Gallup Organization reported that nine Americans in ten said they never doubted…
Ralph Reed’s Real Agenda
Active Faith: How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics Free Press, 312 pages, $25 Ralph…
Presbyterians Hold the Line
The future of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was scheduled to be decided at the 1996 General Assembly,…
Choosing Abundance
The late avant-garde composer John Cage once urged as a basic principle that we “choose abundance rather…
Martha Nussbaum, Poets’ Defender
Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life By Martha C. Nussbaum Beacon, 143 pages, $20 I…
Christianity and Democracy
Fifteen years ago this month, in October 1981, the Washington-based Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) adopted…
Mercy Killing at Golgotha
L. Annaeus Seneca, Greetings from your uncle in Palestine. Whoever thought it best to extend the empire…
How Partisan Are the Bishops?
In preparation for the election year, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) issued a statement on “Political…
Neoconservative Redux
I made a vow, after finishing my May column on “The End of Neoconservatism,” that this was,…
Mercy Killing at Golgotha
L. Annaeus Seneca, Greetings from your uncle in Palestine. Whoever thought it best to extend the empire…
Apologizing to the Babies
Japan has been called “abortion heaven.” The Ministry of Health and Welfare reported 364,350 abortions in 1994,…
Tracing the Tokens of God’s Presence
The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage By Paul Johnson HarperCollins, 216 pages, $24 suspect that most…
Keeping Company
In Good Company: The Church as Polis By Stanley Hauerwas University of Notre Dame Press, 268 pages,…
A Life Beyond Repair
Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography By James Park Sloan Dutton, 505 pages, $27.95 Since his suicide in 1991,…
The Storyteller and the Scientist
Climbing Mount Improbable By Richard Dawkins Norton, 288 pages, $25 Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to…
Beyond the Therapeutic State
It’s All the Rage: Crime and Culture By Wendy Kaminer Addison-Wesley, 292 pages, $22 “I feel,” wrote…
Briefly Noted 125
The Five Books of Moses: A New Translation with Introductions, Commentary, and Notes By Everett Fox Schocken,…
Creation
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. ”Mary Oliver Even on hot days…
Faith and Hope
But having this hope for what we cannot yet see, we are able to wait for it…
Football Saturday Afernoons, Athens, Ohio, 1953-1956
Even in deep Indian summer all wore hats. Always before the end out they stooped a rank…
