Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Learning from the Cold War
It has become commonplace in the last year or so to refer to “the end of the…
Binx and the Malaise
I heard the news in late May as I was walking into the Sno-White Cafe here in…
Literature and Moral Purposes
It is tedious when a speaker begins by protesting modestly that he is inadequate to the task…
Editorial: Repenting of America 1492–1992
Congress has created the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission. To date, twenty-two states have established similar commissions…
The Demon in the Jewish Soul
Demons surface. For most people, demons surface in nightmares, but for us, for Jews, demons seem to…
After the Wedding: Diving Off Isla Mujeres
It’s been three days now. We continue to find splinters of rice clinging to our scalps; piercing no skin…
A Minimalist Aristotle?
Innocence and Experience by stuart hampshire harvard university press, 195 pages, $20 Stuart Hampshire begins his new…
Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity
When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…
Religion and the Life of Learning
What can we know? How should we live? In what or whom should we hope? A historian…
The Many Causes of Environmentalism
The Woodstock Center at Georgetown University is where some distinguished Jesuits, and some less distinguished Jesuits, fiddle…
Ecumenism Without Illusions: A Catholic Perspective
From a Christian point of view, the twentieth century might well be called the century of ecumenism.…
Michael Harrington’s Socialism
Socialism: Past and Future by michael harrington arcade publishing, 320 pages, $19.95 If one is going to…
Feminist Theodicy
Women and Evil by nell noddings university of california press, 284 pages, $25 For centuries theologians and…
The Perfectly Raised Consciousness
Reflecting on the rash of outraged protests against allegedly sexist, racist, and homophobic slurs erupting in our…
Forward to the Seventies
As I write these words, it is exactly one week before my seventieth birthday”“the days of our…
