1985 October
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Letters to the Editor: October 1985
We Distributists... Rank & Rotten... Ecumenical... Gratitude
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Evangelical Protestant Leaders Look at Abortion
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.
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Saying “No” to Death in All Its Manifestations
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.
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Sterilization & An Unformed Conscience
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.”
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Epithalamion
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Why Follow Freud?
Today it is the biological side of psychiatry that entrances, and so the old emphasis on talking and listening seems old-fashioned and unpromising.
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The Rough Edges of Socialism
Contemporary socialism of the democratic, Western European form hasn’t yet eliminated all its sharp edges.
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From Chance Encounter to Friendship
The Kiss of the Spider Woman powerfully portrays the almost magical changes that friendship can bring about in people’s lives.
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The Limits of a Secular Exodus
A political understanding of the power of the Exodus story is eviscerated if its religious meaning is obscured.
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Viewing Christ Afresh
Jesus' teachings on justice and brotherly love, if taken seriously, carry political implications valid for the whole human family throughout the ages.
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Briefly Reviewed: October 1985
Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America... The Image of Guadalupe: Myth or Miracle?... The Genesis Connection... The New Story of Science
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