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. . . According to Dante's reasoning, a person's features—and not, of course, just his physical features—emerge as a consequence of his experience of the real and his exercise of the self-denial that real circumstances occasion. But the articulation of our distinctive features cannot occur as long as we give in to our predilection to suspend ourselves in the amniotic fluid of virtual reality, a kind of permanent placenta in which the jolts of the real world scarcely register. The proliferation of opportunities to immerse ourselves in virtual reality makes it possible for us to indulge our most minute appetites, but it also leaves us with an underdeveloped physiognomy, as it were, with no features carved by renunciation into our human matter. With immediate satisfaction ever at our fingertips, what shape do we have? . . .
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Patrick B. Whalen on Virtual Reality versus Real Personality
31.3 — May/June 2018
Solzhenitsyn's Blunt Sermon Still Cuts Deep 40 Years Later
31.4 — July/August 2018
Labels & the Ecumenism of Discipleship
June 15, 2018 — From the Editor
War, Baby Boom & Bust
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31:4 — July/August 2018
Judith Anderson on the Brevity & Theology of Her Recorded Words
31:4 — July/August 2018
The Difficulty of Apologetics for Dead Souls in the Real World by R. J. Snell
31:4 — July/August 2018
D. Eric Schansberg on America's 1950s Religion & Hope for Today
31:4 — July/August 2018
Steven Faulkner on God's Pictures of Life & Death & Eternity
31:4 — July/August 2018
Places of Worship on the Road to Iron Nation by Lance Nixon
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19.8—October 2006
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14.1—January/February 2001
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28.1—January/February 2015
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From Heavenly Harmony
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31.3 — May/June 2018
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31.4 — July/August 2018
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Mortal Remains
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31.4 — July/August 2018
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As It Is Written . . .
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31.4 — July/August, 2018
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31.1 — January/February, 2018
Survival of the Thomist
Aquinas and Evolution: Why St. Thomas' Teaching on the Origins Is Incompatible with Evolutionary Theory
by Michael Chaberek, O.P.—A review by D. Q. McInerny
31.1 — January/February, 2018
Dynamic Duo
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31.4 — July/August, 2018
The Counterculture of Reason
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson—A review by Richard Kirk
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