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20.8 — October 2007

God’s Fences

A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State


20.4 — May 2007

Marital Bedrock

Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage
by Allan Carlson


17.4 — May 2004

Churchly Shadows & Substance

Deconstructing Evangelicalism,
Recovering Mother Kirk
by D. G. Hart



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