Gilbert Meilaender

In Good Company: The Church as Polis By Stanley Hauerwas University of Notre Dame Press, 268 pages, $29.95 “I do not want to be told that I write too much. Tell me what you want left out and why.” With those words Stanley Hauerwas sets before us another collection of his essays. I will . . . . Continue Reading »

Integrity By Stephen L. Carter Basic Books, 261 pages, $24 I am probably the wrong person to review this book. Although I don’t much like playing card games, one that I do like a lot is a game called Rage . What I like about it is that players are “permitted” to cheat. Of course, if . . . . Continue Reading »

Almost forty thousand Americans are currently on waiting lists, hoping to receive a donated organ. Many of these”especially those awaiting a heart or liver transplant”face situations that are immediately life”threatening, and they will die if a suitable organ for transplant is not . . . . Continue Reading »

Theorizing Citizenship Edited by Ronald Beiner State University of New York Press, 335 pages, $19.95 What does it mean to belong to a political community? Is such belonging, which we call citizenship, important? What binds a body of people together in a political community and sustains their bond . . . . Continue Reading »

On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion By J. Robert Nelson Eerdmans. 212 pp. $12.99 We are badly in need of books that will help us engage in moral and religious reflection upon recent mind-boggling advances in genetics. Unfortunately, On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion will not . . . . Continue Reading »

Every spring a few of the better high school juniors in Ohio compete in the Ohio Tests of Scholastic Achievement. I imagine something similar happens in many other states. Although I pay attention to such matters only from a considerable distance, I was intrigued to learn about one feature of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Narratives of a Vulnerable God : Christ, Theology, and Scripture. By William C. Placher. Westminster/John Knox. 188 pages, $14.99. Over the last several decades the academic study of religion has been marked by a debate that, put much too simply, pits a “Yale school” against a . . . . Continue Reading »

Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem . By David Blankenhorn. Basic Books. 328 pages, $23 . Suppose we accept for the moment a widespread depiction of how our society has systematically oppressed women. It has connected the biological fact that women give birth with the . . . . Continue Reading »

In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the homosexual movement, signed by twenty-one people, of whom I was one. An excerpt from that statement was published in the Wall Street Journal on February 24. I do not intend here to rehearse the argument of . . . . Continue Reading »

The political theorist J. G. A. Pocock once enunciated his First Law of interdisciplinary communication: “Nearly all methodological debate is useless, because nearly all methodological debate is reducible to the formula: You should not be doing your job; you should be doing mine.” It is . . . . Continue Reading »