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1988 December

Letter to the Editor: December 1988

Mere Truisms?... Sheldon Vanauken Is No Saint... Incredulous... and more

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The Fourth of July in Bethlehem: One Family's Tragic Story

ISRAEL, THE PALESTINIANS & COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT

Dan O'Neill

Since December 1987 the sharply divided peoples who inhabit this small piece of Middle East real estate have plunged into ever deeper cycles of violence and revenge...

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Nonviolent Civil Disobedience on Three Fronts: Nuclear War, Abortion & Refugees

THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN LIFE — THREE PERSPECTIVES

Michael Gallagher, Juli Loesch & Gregory McNamee

The sanctuary movement grew in strength to become the largest civil disobedience organization since the antiwar movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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To Be Able to Say of Grace & Truth: 'There It Is'

GUEST COLUMN

Mark Lowery

Christ pinned Himself down, so to speak, by instituting the sacramental order: "Do this in memory of me." His grace and truth, now, are anchored.

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Raymond Carver's Heart & Soul

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Raymond Carver knew in his bones how inti­mately death lives with us, even when we think of ourselves as (temporarily) beyond its reach.

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Abortion & Last Month's Election

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

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The Best Book Written About C.S. Lewis

Sheldon Vanauken

Review of JACK: C.S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer

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Affirming the Reality of the Spiritual

William D. Miller

Review of Harvard Diary by Robert Coles

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The Twilight of Christian Civilization

Paul Gottfried

Review of The Pagan Temptation by Thomas Molnar

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Briefly: December 1988
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