American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
America’s Smiling God
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God ?by T. M. Luhrmann Knopf, 464…
Salting David Livingstone, 1873
He was, you know. Dried out and salted down By men who had carried his stuff all…
I Come to the Garden
I can name so few flowers. This is why I’m not a better poet. Shakespeare knew oxlip…
Evolution and Islam
Professor Steve Jones is having trouble with students cutting class. This isn’t something stellar professors like Jones,…
Relativism’s Moral Mission
In The Brothers Karamazov , the rationalist and unbelieving Ivan is visited by the devil, who lays…
God Save the Queen
On February 6, Queen Elizabeth II marked her diamond jubilee, an achievement that Great Britain will celebrate…
Religious Freedom Abroad
Seventy percent of the world’s population lives in countries that severely restrict religious freedom. Though largely ignored…
God’s Paradoxes
Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evangelical Christology ?by Edward T. Oakes Eerdmans, 471 pages, $44…
The Dangers of Anti-Sharia Laws
The law in several states now requires pro-life pharmacists to dispense the morning-after pill, Christian adoption agencies…
Things Not Caesar’s
Clarity and unanimity have not exactly been the hallmarks of the Supreme Court’s efforts to interpret and…
Briefly Noted
Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet ?by Donald Weinstein ?Yale, 400 pages, $38 n…
Spinoza Unreformed
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age ? by…
The Achievement of Wolfhart Pannenberg
Some theologians are mirrors of their time. The mid-twentieth century rises from the pages of Tillich as…
Thumblings
Far more than Once Upon a Time, A lonely would-be single-mom Wished for a child, and one…
Exporting Gay Rights
Exporting Gay Rights It was a telling speech, Hillary Clinton’s address to the United Nations Human Rights…
