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Deep wounds
By Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia. (Norton, 393 pp.)...
To the contrary
By Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought. (Houghton Mifflin, 254 pp.)...
Master of questions
By Rudiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil. (Harvard University Press, 474 pp.)...
Critical and biblical
By Andre LaCocque and Paul Ricouer.Translated by David Pelauer, Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies. (University of Chicago Press, 441 pp.)...
Grasping the mystery
By Jan Rohls. Translated by John Hoffmeyer, Reformed Confessions: Theology from Zurich to Barmen. (Westminster John Knox, 328 pp.)...
Slight hope for peace
Yasir Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu have departed from Maryland's Wye Plantation....
Fortuna’s rule
It seems quixotic these days to oppose gambling. Games of chance have become embedded in our culture, and there are many legal ways to wager one's money....
Lonely crusade: Fighting the gambling industry
In 1992, the county board in Galena, Illinois, voted to allow the Silver Eagle, a riverboat casino, to cast anchor in the nearby Mississippi River....
My friend’s execution
Just after midnight on Wednesday September 24, 1997, I watched as the state of Missouri put Samuel McDonald to death by lethal injection....
When hungers clash
His name I have forgotten, but the image of him eating at our table is indelible....
Terrible angels
American spirituality being what it is these postmodern days, anything can be turned into an icon, an idol, a god or an angel....
The things that are God’s
The coin bears Caesar's likeness and inscription. What bears God's?
Wall or picket fence?
Edited by Stephen Monsma and J. Christopher Soper, Equal Treatment of Religion in a Pluralistic Society. (Eerdmans, 211 pp.)...
The managed heart
A few years ago I bought a book called The Managed Heart on the basis of the title alone....
Brutal bigotry
Matthew Shepard was a cautious individual, but not, as it turned out, cautious enough....
Seeing good and evil: The virtues of witness
My faith took a turn for the better ten and a half years ago when something very sad happened. My brother Danny was struck by an automobile and died....
Evangelicals and Israel: Theological roots of a political alliance
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington this past January, his initial meeting was not with President Clinton but with Jerry Falwell and more than 1,000 fundamentalist Chr...
There’s hope for optimism
Optimism is hard to come by this autumn. Don't confuse it with hope, in any case....