Necessities

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Letters to the Editor: April 1985

Paul Not Knocked Off a Horse... “Old-Timer”... GOD/Art... Ferocious Postal Rate Hike... Distressed... Thank You... Without Exaggerations... Terms of Disapproval

Beyond “Left” & “Right”

ABORTION & NUCLEAR WAR

Peter Kreeft

How can we honestly ask God to re­move the scourge of abortion from our land when we are prepared to abort entire other countries with nuclear fire and brimstone?

Mary, for Protestants

“BY THEIR FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM”

Jim C. Cunningham

If Christ is so precious, perfect, loving, and wonderful, then what can be said of Mary of whom He is the fruit?

The Odyssey of an American Priest in Guatemala

INTERVIEW WITH FR. RON BURKE

Richard Bermack

My name was placed on a hit list; I was accused of being a communist. At the same time we were leafleted by guerrillas, who were attacking our stand on nonviolence.

The Gift of Thomas Merton

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Merton was a constantly changing person, and years in the monastery did nothing to stop that process, for all the enclosing, demanding steadiness of the monastic routine.

The Truth About the A.C.T.U.

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

The resistance of American workers to communist domination of their trade unions was based on something far more solid than anti-communist hysteria.

Depicting the Workings of Grace

A CINEMATIC VIEW

Robert E. Lauder

Places in the Heart stands with Chariots of Fire as one of the few films in recent years with both a sympathetic and profound view of religion.

Two Special Friends of God

Thomas W. Case

Von Balthasar was influential in Adrienne von Speyr’s conversion; he was her confessor, secretary and ed­itor of her “dictations”; and her “dictations” pro­foundly influenced his theology.

The Big Thaw

Steven Hayward

My college group had a vision for a “holistic” Christian community, but none of us had yet reckoned with what we then anxiously re­ferred to as the “Real World.”

Briefly Reviewed: April 1985

They Saw the Lord... The Fire that Consumes