Letters to the Editor: December 1986

Caryll Houselander... Appalled by Norman Lear... Appalled by Ad for “Aids” Book... The Economics of Dolorism... Internal Jewish Pressures... Kindred Spirits

Coping with Distractions

ROUTINE BUSYNESS, CHURCH POLITICS, ET AL

Henri J.M. Nouwen

If we live with constant attentiveness to God and the places where God is bringing new life, we might gradually lose our preoccupation with never-ending conflicts.

The Life & Thought of Titus Brandsma

ANTI-NAZI PRIEST

Donald J. D’Elia

Modern man, reserved and calculating, must restore true heroism, true spontaneity to his life, Brandsma taught, so that love, sacrifice, and courage may be allowed to perfect our human nature.

Bishop, Therefore Martyr

GUEST COLUMN

Alvaro de Silva

A living bishop is the one who is ready to die confessing the faith. A mere bureaucrat, even if he be a bishop, does not give his life for anything.

A Victim of Spiritual Poverty

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

I know a successful businessman who is a victim of spiritual poverty, and some materially impoverished people I’ve met are spiritually affluent.

The Sins of the Right & the Left

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

In decades past there was a reluctance on the part of Latin American Christians committed to “a preferential option for the poor" to criticize the Soviet Union.

American Religion: Patriotic or Critical?

James J. Thompson Jr.

America is a formidable land in which to be in the world but not of it; its at­tractions are many and its lures seductive. The imperative for Christians lies in resistance.

South African Complexities

Robert Coles

South Africa was a “first world” country for white people (and a few others) and a “third world” country for the majority of its 30 million people.

Briefly Reviewed: December 1986

God’s Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School... The Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles’ Creed... Origen: Spirit and Fire... Family and Nation... Aquinas, Calvin, and Contemporary Protestant Thought: A Critique of Protestant Views on the Thought of Thomas Aquinas... The Liberation of One... Tikkun magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1... The Feast of Faith: Approaches to a Theology of the Liturgy... East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall... The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume II: The Tender Passion