Christianity and Crisis
I haven't read this "Journal of Christian Opinion" since the 1970s,
and by the mid-1990s it had folded. Published out of New York City, it
used to be one of the best nondenominational, somewhat left-of-liberal,
ethically-articulate journals available that was still a card-carrying member
of the Establishment. By this I mean that they were close to the World and
National Council of Churches, and to Union Theological (Rockefeller money),
and also the fact that Reinhold Niebuhr, the darling of the strategists at
the U.S. State Department during the 1950s, was carried on the masthead for
many years. On issues such as their opposition to U.S. policy in Vietnam and
their support for human rights everywhere, Christianity and Crisis was always
consistent. Even after Niebuhr's name was removed, this still left a number
of religious scholar-activists of independent conscience as contributing
editors: John C. Bennett, Robert McAfee Brown, Harvey Cox, Rosemary Ruether,
and William Stringfellow, for example. (I took a course from Bennett and
another from Brown at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley in 1975-76;
Brown let me write my paper on the recent U.S. meddling in Chile.) In their
August 7, 1972 issue, Christianity and Crisis had the good taste to publish
an article by me titled "Notes From the Late Student Movement."
-- D.Brandt
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