Letter to the Editor: December 1988

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

Abortion & Last Month's Election

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

My priest did not believe the state has any obligation to do something about poverty, hunger, and homelessness. He said this is up to individuals and the churches.

The Best Book Written About C.S. Lewis

Sheldon Vanauken

One of the most remarkable aspects of JACK is the reader's sense of having a trust­worthy guide who knows the ter­rain.

Affirming the Reality of the Spiritual

William D. Miller

Harvard Diary won't be a bestseller, but it should be. Coles can write — lyrically at times — and Christ is his measure of what it means to be human.

The Twilight of Christian Civilization

Paul Gottfried

Christian­ity has been challenged by alter­natives that chronologically fol­low it and express some side of the Christian heritage in an ex­aggerated form.

Briefly: December 1988