Reflections
Fall 2004
The Mighty and the Almighty:
Foreign Policy and God
In this intense political season religion has been playing a major role in public life. Presidential candidates have been routinely grilled on issues of private and public morality and "God" appears as a warrant for various political positions. This issue of Reflecitons continues a long tradition at Yale Divinity School of thinking about the relationship between religion and public life, without focusing simply on the intense concerns of the moment.
--Dean Harold W. Attridge
From the Dean's Desk
The borderless nature of religious faith often makes it easier for leaders to talk to one another; easier for nations to agree on common values; and easier for people from vastly different backgrounds to reach a consensus about moral standards.
---Madeleine K. Albright
The Mighty and the Almighty:
Foreign Policy and God
CONTENTS
From the Dean's Desk
From the Editor
ARTICLES
The Mighty and the Almighty: United States Foreign Policy and God by Madeleine K. Albright
Anxious About Empire: A Conversation with Professor Wesley Avram
Partnership in Hope: Gender, Faith, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa by Margaret A. Farley
Politics and Salt by John E. Hare
Letters to a Young Doubter by William Sloan Coffin '56
When America Can Say, "I'm Back!" by James A. Forbes
The Third World Is Just Around the Corner by R. Clifton Spargo '93
"Ministry" with Societies in Transition: An Interview with Ambassador William Lacy Swing '60
On Mammon and Manna by Clifton Kirkpatrick '68
The Last Word: What Does Madeleine Albright's Address Say about the Character of Contemporary Christianity? by Stanley Hauerwas '65
POETRY
Shades by Dianne Bilyak '06
My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud by Li-Young Lee
Storm Front by Joel Hanisek '06
Apropos the Dark Night of the Soul by Thomas Farrington
CREDITS
All photographic artwork by
Gabriel Amadeus Cooney
Harold W. Attridge, Publisher
Jamie L. Manson '02, Editor