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The Flight from Science and Reason . Edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis. New York Academy of Sciences/Johns Hopkins University Press. 593 pages, $19.95 paper. This book contains the proceedings of a conference of the same title sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, . . . . Continue Reading »

Salad Bowl Religion As a former student of Professor Jon D. Levenson’s and an ordained Orthodox rabbi, I should be the last person to take serious issue with his thought-provoking piece on “The Problem with Salad Bowl Religion” (December 1997). But I do. First, there is the . . . . Continue Reading »

A Generation at Risk: Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval . By Paul R. Amato and Alan Booth. Harvard University Press. 319 pages, $35. The view of most family scholars and professionals-and probably also of most adult Americans under the age of forty-five-is that parental unhappiness is worse . . . . Continue Reading »

Marian Mischief? I am flattered that Richard John Neuhaus has commented not once but twice (While We’re At It, November and December 1997) on my Newsweek cover story on the Virgin Mary. In that story we reported the international petition campaign, signed by millions of Roman Catholics, . . . . Continue Reading »

Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Mind. Edited by G. A. Rawlyk. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 542 pages, $55. The twenty-eighth work in a series on religious history published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, this book is a significant contribution to the increasingly lively . . . . Continue Reading »

Darwinism as Science and Philosophy I am pleased that you published the essay by Phillip E. Johnson entitled “The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism” (November 1997), because now I can understand exactly what Mr. Johnson’s quarrel with evolutionary theory in general, and with . . . . Continue Reading »

This statement, originally titled “A Christian Women’s Declaration,” was issued on September 16, 1997 by the Ecumenical Coalition of Women and Society, a project of the Washington-based Institute on Religion and Democracy. It is reproduced here with the permission of IRD © . . . . Continue Reading »

A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington’s Farewell Address and the American Character. By Matthew Spalding and Patrick J. Garrity. Rowman & Littlefield. 217 pages, $27.95. Political scientists who study only the Constitution typically claim America’s founding derives from the . . . . Continue Reading »

Islam and Religious Dialogue The tenor of Richard John Neuhaus’ Public Square essay on the book The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam by Bat Ye’or (“The Approaching Century of Religion,” October 1997) seems entirely misdirected if the intention is to encourage understanding as . . . . Continue Reading »

In the spring of 1994, a distinguished group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed statement, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium” (FT, May 1994). That statement, commonly referred to as “ECT,” noted a growing . . . . Continue Reading »