American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
CPAC Behind Bars
A few weeks back, I highlighted the friction between ascendant libertarians and ignored social conservatives at the…
Poetic Theologian
Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence by shai held indiana, 352 pages, $38.95 Few modern theological…
Biotech Babies
Suzanne is a forty-year-old mother of two who recentlyattended an Evangelical women’s Bible study in a suburb…
Briefly Noted
Dark Passages of the Bible: Engaging Scripture with Benedict XVI and Thomas Aquinasby matthew j. ramagecua, 312…
The Ancients on Abortion
Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy last semester, I hopedto cruise through the Purgatorio to make sure we completed…
Bridging a False Divide
Two years ago, a colleague of mine, a specialist in the OldTestament, sidled over to me at…
The Christ of Marc Chagall
It recently became widely known that the favorite paintingnof Pope Francis is the White Crucifixion by Marc…
Washington’s Politics of Reality Distortion
I don’t give a [expletive] about piracy. But for that money I have to admit, I started getting…
Not Just For Profit
Post-argument predictions will continue to pour out regarding Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, cases…
Britain’s Baby Burning
The British public is currently being scandalized by the revelations that hospitals there have been incinerating the…
Implied Consent
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act’s “contraception mandate”—the requirement that…
Marriage Equality Now!
I’m committed to it. You should be, too. The inequality’s a scandal in our society. Like good…
Isolated in the Information Age
Young voters are more politically up-for-grabs than one would think. They are more likely to favor same-sex…
How to Reach the Hip, Urban, and Socially Liberal
Bishop Rimbo is getting creative. Leader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s New York diocese since…
Time to Accommodate the Divorce Revolution?
In the wake of the divorce revolution that swept Europe and the Americas over the last half-century,…
