Glenn Tinder is the author of Can We Be Good Without God: On the Practical Meaning of Christianity (Regent College) and other books. Also by this author Augustine Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2004-10-22 issue: View Contents Recommended for you Whatever Happened to Synodality? By Heidi Schlumpf June 18, 2026 Waidmannslust By Linda Kinstler June 15, 2026 Innocence & Impotence By Sophia Sheehy Bulla June 18, 2026