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All over the West, Bibles are as handy as the nearest paperback bookstore or hotel room. But for harassed Christians in the Soviet Union, a Bible can cost more than two weeks' wages on the black market. Things are almost as bad, and sometimes worse, in many satellite nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Smugglers of the Word | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

They will also, no doubt, be well-advised to set limits on the contact of sincere American intellectuals with the Chinese people. Even American students of China who in their own minds associate themselves with a counter-culture are likely to find that in fact they come to China as...

Author: By John K. Fairbank, | Title: Reflections on Iran and China | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

The movie begins and ends in a pious condemnation of street life from a traditional, middle-class, Midwestern, Protestant perspective--a perspective which seems as foreign to Schrader as California is to Scott's bewildered father. Schrader's prototypes of middle class life, Grand Rapids, is nothing but a collection...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Harder They Come | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

A visitor, however sympathetic, is prone to feel that the hope is deluded. The stripped-down Protestant faith of the townsmen should have readied them for that. Where two or three are gathered together, there first of all is Satan: pride of self, envy, greed. While it seems a near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Strong Old Rhythms of Plains | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

Religious opposition to abortion, or at least to abortion on request, is more widespread than is sometimes apparent. Major groups that accept abortions only to save the mother's life include the various Eastern Orthodox churches, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, most members of the Churches of Christ, "independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ecumenical War over Abortion | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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