Letters to the Editor: October 1985

We Distributists... Rank & Rotten... Ecumenical... Gratitude

Evangelical Protestant Leaders Look at Abortion

A SURPRISING AMBIVALENCE

Franky Schaeffer

A quality of life ethic tries to decide for others who can have a relationship with God and who cannot, who is or is not created in the image of God.

Saying “No” to Death in All Its Manifestations

A SPIRITUALITY OF PEACEMAKING — PART II

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Real resistance requires the humble confes­sion that we are partners in the evil that we seek to resist. This is a very hard and seemingly endless dis­cipline.

Sterilization & An Unformed Conscience

GUEST COLUMN

Ann Kelly

To tamper with the generative function, as I did, is to make myself a god, or to tell God, in effect, “I know better than You do.”

Epithalamion

A POEM

William Dunn

Why Follow Freud?

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Today it is the biological side of psy­chiatry that entrances, and so the old emphasis on talking and listening seems old-fashioned and unpromis­ing.

The Rough Edges of Socialism

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Contemporary socialism of the democratic, Western European form hasn’t yet eliminated all its sharp edges.

From Chance Encounter to Friendship

A CINEMATIC VIEW

Robert E. Lauder

The Kiss of the Spider Woman powerfully portrays the almost magical changes that friendship can bring about in people’s lives.

The Limits of a Secular Exodus

Robert N. Bellah

A political understanding of the power of the Exodus story is eviscerated if its religious meaning is obscured.

Viewing Christ Afresh

Charles DeCelles

Jesus' teachings on justice and brotherly love, if taken seriously, carry political implications valid for the whole human family throughout the ages.

Briefly Reviewed: October 1985

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