On Becoming Roman Catholic

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letters to the Editor: October 1983

Dorothy Day or Doris Day?... “Creationism” & the Church Fathers... Why Pick on the Swiss?... Ends in Themselves?... Tears of Sadness... Desire to Become a Catholic

Evangelicalism’s Debt to the Medieval Church

“AND THE NET WAS NOT TORN…”

Thomas O. Kay

The medieval church contributed positively to Puritan and evangelical traditions from whence many Christians spring.

Old Cathedral

A POEM

T.J. Kelly

Detection & Orthodoxy

ON DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Rosamond Kent Sprague

The work of Dorothy Sayers is very much all of a piece; she was a thinking and believ­ing Anglican throughout her literary career.

Enlightenment

A POEM

William Luse

Communicating Our Faith on Television

“GOOD NEWS TIME”

Miles O’Brien Riley

TV news is be­coming the best place to tell our story. It offers opportunities for believers to express their faith in a prime time context.

On Abortion

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

In one way or another, through greed and aggressive manipula­tions and callousness and self-serving rationaliza­tions, we shun our obligations to others.

A Clear Line

VATICAN WATCH

James Hitchcock

Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Whimsical Christian

CHRISTIAN CLASSICS REVISITED

James J. Thompson Jr.

From first to last, The Whimsical Chris­tian provides the unadulterated pleasure of watch­ing the workings of a powerful Christian mind.

False Savior

Harold Fickett

The expense of maintaining our own illusions of godliness must finally crush our spirits or turn us back to God.

Fundamentalism in Perspective

John E. Phelan Jr.

The theo­logical and social perspectives of the “New Right” were developed, challenged, and solidified for the most part within the Baptist culture of the South.

Briefly Reviewed: October 1983

July’s People... Y’shua: The Jewish Way to Say Jesus