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How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson
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The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
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Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
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Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
The Matter at Hand
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pondering the Christian life
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Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
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A Pastor & a Poet
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms by Malcolm Guite
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35.1 — January/February, 2022
Biblical Skepticism
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