2003-09-12
Date:
Friday, September 12, 2003
A lion, even in winter
The death of Katharine Houghton Hepburn on Sunday, June 29, was big news everywhere, but in my part of the country-the Hartford area of Connecticut-it felt as...
We the People of God
Sexual-abuse scandals, here and abroad, are but one symptom of a much deeper problem facing the church: its current structure of government is extraordinarily...
Courting schism
Among the varieties of Christian experience, none is more pleasing to the senses than a stately Anglican liturgy, from the opening procession to the altar to...
Same-sex marriage
There is no doubt that the industrialized West is going through a profound change in the way it regards homosexuality. The Supreme Court’s recent...
Breaking the code
The publishing hit of the summer wasn’t written by J. K. Rowling or a certain well-compensated senator from New York. That distinction belongs to Dan...
The war on terrorism
It has been two years since Islamist terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center and crashed a plane into the Pentagon. Since September 11, 2001, life in this...
