Avery Dulles rsquo s first article for America appeared in the issue of May 5 1951 It was already five years since he had published his first book A Testimonial to Grace a narrative of his conversion to Catholicism while an undergraduate at Harvard For half a century Dulles has continued to tur

Last spring I ran a seminar on the contemporary Catholic imagination in America and at the end I asked my students to write about their own religious imaginations One found a surprise she discovered she had a religious imagination But she shouldn rsquo t have been surprised everyone has onea se

In 1976 Bruno Bettelheim caused a stir with The Uses of Enchantment arguing that Grimms rsquo fairy tales could be read as Freudian fables of adolescence identity and sexual maturation After some initial shock the consensus was that Bettelheim had a point Now another partisan intellectual the

There was a time not long ago when neither religion nor politics was discussed in polite company These emotionally charged topics were taboo Today when people actually have time to take dinner together and linger long enough for real conversation talk of politics and religion may often be over

The 1986 Assisi interfaith meeting of the pope the Dalai Lama Rome rsquo s chief rabbi the archbishop of Canterbury and others heralds a less elitist and isolated more dialogical and democratic style of mysticism appropriate to a global world contends William Johnston in his latest book This m

Since the last of William F Cody rsquo s Wild West Shows was put on in 1916 scarcely anyone alive today can still remember them But for over 30 years those extravagant spectacles copyrighted in 1883 which featured live animals real Indians including for a time Sitting Bull and thunderous