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Letters

Choosing Choice

Various

Choosing Choice John E. Coons (“Is Choice Still Choice?” August/September) writes that polls show support for choice…

Essays

Science, Religion, and Volleyball

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Science is science and religion is religion and never the twain shall meet. It…

On Bringing One’s Life to a Point

Gilbert Meilaender

In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…

Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife

Leon R. Kass

It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch…

Gay Marriage: Reimaging Church History

Robin Darling Young

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe By John Boswell Villard Books. 412 pp. $25 Ancient in origin, same-sex…

The Second Coming

Alan Jacobs

A few years ago, when the English novelist A. N. Wilson announced his repudiation of Christianity, the…

The Church-State Game: A Symposium on Kiryas Joel

William Bentley Ball

On June 27, 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Kiryas…

Opinion

School’s Out

James Nuechterlein

This fall Valparaiso University decided (not unreasonably) that five-and-a-half years of leave of absence is enough, and…

Right-Thinking About the Religious Right

David R. Carlin

It is amusing to see how alarmed all right-thinking people have become about that menacing phenomenon called…

Reviews

The Green Crusade

Kenneth R. Weinstein

The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism by charles t. rubin rowman & littlefield publishers, 320…

Submitting Freedom

Peter Ochs

Submitting to Freedom: The Religious Vision of William James by bennett ramsey oxford university press, 192 pages,…

Briefly Noted 110

Various

The Ground We Share: Everyday Practice, Christian and Buddhist by robert aitken and david steindl-rast triumph books,…

George Grant

Daniel Westberg

George Grant: A Biography by william christian university of toronto press, 495 pages In considering Canada’s contribution…

Essays in Understanding

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Books about Hannah Arendt have been proliferating at a brisk pace. Now there is a new book…