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Books & Culture July/August 1997 Issue

Going On

Robert Siegel

Fore (Golf Dreams)

Jon Pott

When a Man Loves a Woman--As a Friend (Part 2)

Caroline Simon

When a Man Loves a Woman--As a Friend (Part 1)

Caroline Simon

Commentary (Part 2)

Jon Pott

Commentary (Part 1)

Michael LeRoy

Does Inequality = Injustice? (Part 3)

Amy L. Sherman

Does Inequality = Injustice? (Part 2)

Amy L. Sherman

Does Inequality = Injustice? (Part 1)

Amy L. Sherman

In Brief: July 01, 1997

LETTERS

The Gargoyle on the Steeple

LaVonne Neff

Stranger in a Strange Land

John Wilson, Managing Editor

An Unforgiving Eye

Betty Smartt Carter

Dorothy Sayers's Workshop

Ralph C. Wood

After the Death Squads

Mark R. Amstutz

An Ambiguous Rebellion

Ethan Casey

Scalia v. Judicial Activism

Lucas Morel

The Cross and the Holocaust

Jacob Neusner

Paul and the Politics of Identity

Judith M. Gundry-Volf and Miroslav Volf

For the Greater Glory of God?

Patrick Henry Reardon

Oscar Night for Magazines

Michael G. Maudlin

Coercion and Conscience

Phillip Johnson

The Angel of Vengeance

Roy Anker

American Adam

Interview by Michael Cromartie

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The Bible Doesn’t Justify War Crimes

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The Rise of the Religious Right

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