Introduction: Is God's work our work? faith, doubt, and radical amazement -- Is religion conservative or progressive? (or both?) -- Why the culture war is the wrong war: religion, values, and American politics -- What are the "values" issues?: economics, social justice, and the struggle over morality -- Selling religion short: when ideology is not enough -- John Paul, Benedict, and the Catholic future -- What happened to the seamless garment? the agony of liberal Catholicism -- Solidarity, liberty, and religion's true calling