September 2003
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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Harvard Springtime
On Sunday, April 27, one of the large lecture halls at Harvard Divinity School was two-thirds filled…
The Ironies of American Power
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan Knopf. 103…
The Right Double Negative
Margaret Simon, my sixth grade English teacher and grammar martinet, would have been shocked by this book’s…
Briefly Noted 55
Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians. By F. E. Peters. Princeton University Press. 285 pp. $28.…
The Sociality of Society
The Common Good and Christian Ethics by David Hollenbach Cambridge University Press. 269 pp. $23 paper It…
A Triple Agent in South Dakota
The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia By Richard Pipes Yale University Press. 153 pp.…
What’s So Funny
The Morality of Laughter by f. h. buckleyuniversity of michigan press. 239 pp. $29.95 Football, a famously…
Finding God in China
The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage by Norman Girardot University of California Press. 861…
Ave Maria
When we were born, our awestruck mother smiled. God gave her love to give the wondering child.…
Swallows
Joyously shuttling Back and forth Over the meadow Swift as thoughts Succeeding one another, Blue-feathered weavers Of…
Liturgical Dance Notes
Balletic slim with gently nubile curves And sweetly graced extensions of long limbs” They sway, step, bend…
Laodicea
I burn for all good heresy in this ungodly town. If I had any hope to raise…
