... to certain humans -- does even God play favorites? Throughout history, similar stories have raised this question time and again, and I have never heard an answer that satisfies me. Tony Kushner wrote a Pulitzer prize- and Tony award-winning Broadway play called Angels in America - it is about a divine messenger who ministers to a man with AIDS. Kushner is also troubled by the thought that angels appear to and take care of only some people and not others. "I find that horrendously offensive," he says, "The ...
... only boutiques, angel newsletters, and angel seminars. Harvard Divinity School has a course on angels; Boston College has two. Bookstores have had to establish angel sections. There have been a host of films recently in which angels have figured prominently. In Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play, Angels In America, a divine messenger ministers to a man with AIDS. In Publishers Weekly's religious bestseller list at the end of 1992, five of the 10 paperback books were about angels. (2) Angels ...
... really surprised when so-called "Christian militias" praise the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing as a "work of art" every bit "as much a masterpiece as a Rembrandt painting." In The Holocaust and The Liberal Imagination (Cambridge, Mass.: Black- well, 1994), Tony Kushner shows how liberalism in its broadest definition (as we are using it here) limited our ability to comprehend the scale or specificity of the Nazi horror. It was liberalism's blinkered moral vision that could not come to terms with evil ...
