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Religiously Texan
Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State? by robert wuthnow? princeton, 664 pages, $39.50 I am a Texan. We Texans believe you can’t understand us unless you...
Go With God
The Christian religion,” wrote Robert Louis Wilken, “is inescapably ritualistic (one is received into the Church by a solemn washing with water), uncompromisingly moral (‘be ye perfect as your...
The Kingdoms of the World
American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile by Richard John Neuhaus Basic, 265 pages, $26.95 Near the end of American Babylon comes a paragraph that reads: “The truth about...
In a Time of War: An Exchange
In their editorial “In a Time of War” (December 2001), the Editors of First Things declare: “One matter that has been muddied in recent decades should now be clarified:...