To Read and to Live

by Alan Jacobs

The best way we can demonsrate our love for great books is ro use them in our search to discover “what we might do and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

God and Evolution: An Exchange

by Howard J. Van Till

I Howard J. Van Till Although the rhetoric Phillip E. Johnson employs in his article “Creator or Blind Watchmaker?” (FT, January 1993) differs in some details from that of the “scientific creationists” of North American Christian fundamentalism, the effect of his pronouncements is the same. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

Athens and Jerusalem, Again

by Peter J. Leithart

President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things: a waste of political capital, a declaration of war against biblical morality, a declaration of war against the warrior class. I call it calling a bluff. For decades, conservatives have celebrated . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

June/July Letters

by Various

Ambassador to the Vatican? Four false assumptions are operative in your Public Square comment “Reopening Wounds” (March). The first is that those who oppose the United States sending an ambassador to the Vatican do so because they want to drive religion from the public square. The second is . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

A Word on “The Competition”

by Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square So it has come to this. Fifty-two years ago, the great Reinhold Niebuhr and a few associates launched Christianity & Crisis in order to counter what they viewed as the liberal sentimentalism of American Protestantism, a sentimentalism that was unwilling or unable to face up to the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress

by Matthew Scully

Saints & Sinners: Walter Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Anton LeVay, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox by lawrence wright knopf, 266 pages, $24 Lawrence Wright’s memoir of a few years ago, In the New World: Growing Up With America, 1960–1984, was billed as “a biography of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

For Duns Scotus

by Mark P. Shea

Under the dome-sky oneness  translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness chokes in nebulae of beetles, sand grains, hydrogen atoms. Gnosis blurs, pits the achilded One against the unfathered Many. Asks, ‘‘Who could hear each song in the All Song?” . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

Simple Anna

by Kent Gramm

Simple Anna liked the words although she didn’t understand what many of them meant. Her man sometimes could make them into worlds where forests shaded green young girls. The girls were always what she was  when what she was was what she dreamed.  By herself she never dreamed,  not . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

The Newtape File IV

by Jean Bethke Elshtain

You seem to have grasped the point about eviscerating distinctions of any serious content. I am delighted to witness the scenes of domestic discord, and you coached young Bud wonderfully in the donnybrook with Mother Smith. She seems rather shaken, fretting, as any good American must, about whether . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1993

Saving the World

by John P. Sisk

In the Fall 1991 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly , which is very usefully devoted to the problems of unity and diversity in the contemporary world, Isaiah Berlin observes that the twentieth century is “the worst century that Europe has ever had.” Certainly there is widespread . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1993