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Moral Values 0
- January/February 2005
- January 1, 2005
Can it really be so long since the U.S. presidential elections? What, all of two months! The attack rhetoric is all gone now and, uninterrupted by paid political ads, television programming is back to the usual numbing flicker. It's jingle bells and Auld Lang Syne and elections in Iraq for us. But the political landscape
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A Complex Relationship 0
- November/December 2004
- November 1, 2004
By Mario M. Cuomo, Harold Holzer, historical consultant, Harcourt, 183 pp., $24.00 Reviewed by Charles J. Eusey. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as governor of New York, told a newspaperman that one of his goals was for "us Democrats to claim Lincoln as one of our own." A more recent governor of New York, Mario M. Cuomo,
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Faith in Politics 0
- November/December 2004
- November 1, 2004
Henry David Thoreau once remarked on the "great flapping ear" of the American public wanting to know everything about everything. And, in spite of the elephantine imagery he seemed to use, the contemporary curiosity crosses all party lines. Yet, at times that curiosity, while insatiable, is a little like an internet search engine let loose
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Churches and the Siren Call of Politics 0
- November/December 2004
- November 1, 2004
The Evangelical church in America is in real danger today. As if the effort to save people's souls weren't enough to deal with, today's church must also grapple with sex scandals, skyrocketing divorce rates, debates over gay marriage, and a nation in the midst of what seems to be an escalating religious war. Sensing the
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I'm Personally Opposed… But 0
- November/December 2004
- November 1, 2004
In 2003 the soon-to-be-terminated governor of California, Gray Davis, was warned by his local bishop that the governor's boast of making California "the most pro-choice state in America" threatened his standing in the Catholic Church. When Davis was told by Sacramento bishop William K. Weigand either to change his views or to stop receiving Communion,
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Iraq Diary 0
- November/December 2004
- November 1, 2004
As we drove through the Iraqi countryside, I sat in the backseat of the SUV looking out the window in amazement at the pastoral scenes passing before me. With my teammates, Otto and Deanna, I had just crossed from the Turkish border into what is known as the Kurdistan area of Iraq. We were a
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