Word: faithfully
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...religion that ultimately led Blair to politics. Interested mostly in the social gospel, he was heavily influenced by John Macmurray, a Scottish philosopher who wrote that Christians have a positive obligation to work toward improving society--the communitarian notion he still trumpets regularly. Blair nevertheless rarely speaks about his faith in public, refrains from ending speeches with "God bless you" and never attends high-profile prayer breakfasts with prominent religious figures. When asked by TIME if he is religious, Blair, who normally speaks in well-constructed, seamless paragraphs, became inarticulate: "I am, but I don't...you know...every time...
...legal onslaught--and $600 million in annual legal fees--behind it. "These cases were a gun to their heads," says John Coale, lead counsel for a coalition representing 60 law firms suing tobacco companies, who has been participating in the talks. "Now the industry has to prove its good faith...
Abrams' conclusion that Jews should unite with Evangelical Christians to chip at the wall between church and state seems as contestable as Dershowitz's pro-secularism. But the issue of whether to respond to intermarriage by widening "outreach" to Gentiles or narrowing more closely on faith fuels a simmering debate within Judaism's major branches. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the pre-eminent voice of America's liberal Reform movement, detects "a degree of [religious] involvement that far transcends anything we've seen before." Yet it was Reform that in 1983 felt it necessary to assert that Jewish lineage, which traditionally passes...
Alan Dershowitz's book, The Vanishing American Jew (Little, Brown; 395 pages; $24.95), has been out only a month, but its title describes a crisis long under way. For decades, while their opportunities and status soared, Jews uneasily watched the rate at which their children married outside the faith do likewise. Unease turned to alarm in 1990, when the National Jewish Population Survey announced that the intermarriage rate had reached 52%. A last forlorn fantasy--that all those Gentile spouses would eventually become Jews--was punctured by a meager 9% conversion rate. In fact, 54% of the children...
Dershowitz's conclusions were dubbed "lame" in a review by Elliott Abrams, a think-tank head and former Assistant Secretary of State whose own book on assimilation, Faith or Fear (Free Press; 256 pages; $25), is due in June. Abrams too detects a distortion in American Jewish self-image: he thinks the elite, eager to fit in, traded religious identity for the less off-putting "faith" of secular liberalism, and the price is outmarriage. "Jewishness without Judaism," he insists, "cannot be transmitted from generation to generation...