Abstract
This book is based on the conference, "To Be Christian in America Today," which took place in Washington, D.C. in April 1991. About ninety individuals participated in the conference with representatives of evangelical Protestant, liberal Protestant, and Catholic thought. Evangelical participants included Os Guinness, Carl F. H. Henry, Mark A. Noll, Ronald J. Sider and James W. Skillen; of these only Mark Noll is a contributor to this book. The editors are Richard John Neuhaus, president of the Institute on Religion and Public Life in New York City and editor-in-chief of the monthly journal First Things, and George Weigel, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. and frequent commentator from a Catholic perspective. Difficult questions are considered in the book, such as those related to abortion, individual liberty and the nature of the community, poverty and the crisis of urban poor, and America's world role after the Cold War.