October 2004
October Letters
Personalism and Apologetics After reading Avery Cardinal Dulles’ article “The Rebirth of Apologetics” (May), one would do…
Bishops at a Turning Point
The Public Square Bishops at the Turning Point In the nineteen years he has been attending these…
The Supreme Court Rules: 2004
The Supreme Court Rules: 2004 by Michael M. Uhlmann For those old enough to remember the way…
The Evangelical Mind Today
The Evangelical Mind Today Mark Noll Ten years after the publication of The Scandal of the Evangelical…
Our New Deal Nation
Our New Deal Nation James Nuechterlein For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis…
Kierkegaard for Grownups
That extraordinary writer of stories about the “Christ-haunted” American South, Flannery O’Connor, was frequently asked why her…
Don’t Call it Proselytism
Don’t Call it Proselytism by Lawrence A. Uzzell Several years ago, during an interview I was conducting…
Discovering Our Dependence
Discovering Our Dependence by Mary Ann Glendon When Otto von Bismarck established the world’s first social security…
Unsettling Canada
Unsettling Canada by Raymond J. De Souza For Canada’s social conservatives, the recent federal election offered cause…
Truth–or Consequences
Truth–or Consequences Lying; An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity by Paul J. Griffiths Brazos 254 pp. $18.99 reviewed by J.…
Ture Mercy and Charity
True Mercy and Charity Saving America: Faith-based Services and the Future of Civil Society by Robert Wuthnow …
The Things That Remain
The Things That Remain Dylan’s Vision of Sin. by Christopher Ricks. Ecco 517 pp. $26.95 reviewed by…
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Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion By Michael Heller Templeton 183 pp. $22.95 paper Michael Heller…
Hope and Resistance
Hope and Resistance A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David…