articles by Louis Markos

37.2 — Mar/Apr 2024

Mining Middle-Earth

Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology edited by Douglas Estes


36.6 — Nov/Dec 2023

Christ in China

on David Marshall’s Take on Chinese Religion & Tradition


36.5 — Sept/Oct 2023

The Divine Stage

Serious Comedy: The Philosophical and Theological Significance of Tragic and Comic Writing in the Western Tradition by Patrick Downey


36.1 — Jan/Feb 2023

Purest Fiction

The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints by Jessica Hooten Wilson


35.6 — Nov/Dec 2022

Points of Contact

The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif


35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022

Thoroughly Modern Marriage

on How It & Easy Divorce Made “Gay Marriage” Inevitable


35.3 — May/Jun 2022

Son of Odysseus

Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse by Jonathan Golding


35.1 — January/February 2022

Greek Odyssey

Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life by Eric Metaxas


34.6 — Nov/Dec 2021

Saving the Theophanies

How to Restore & Transcend the Middle Ages


33.6 — Nov/Dec 2020

Mutually Edifying

Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis by Gina Dalfonzo


33.4 — July/August 2020

More Answers

Truth Matters, Life Matters More: The Unexpected Beauty of an Authentic Christian Life by Hank Hanegraaff


33.2 — March/April 2020

Creed & Coleridge

on the Necessary Limits on the Wandering Christian Mind


32.2 — March/April 2019

The Aura of Science

Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West, Volume II by Paul Gosselin


31.4 — July/August 2018

Out of the Box

Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor


31.3 — May/June 2018

Net Mending

Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith by Holly Ordway


30.6 — Nov/Dec 2017

The Central Lie

C. S. Lewis: Anti-Darwinist: A Careful Examination of the Development of His Views on Darwinism by Jerry Bergman


30.3 — May/June 2017

The Pity & the Pride

on One Difference Between Sins of the Flesh & Sins of the Soul


28.6 — Nov/Dec 2015

A Ring of Power

C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society
edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan Wolfe


28.5 — Sept/Oct 2015

Divine Collections

on the Transformative Power of Mere Hobbies


28.4 — July/Aug 2015

Higher End Gifts

on How You Can Take It with You


28.1 — January/February 2015

No Safe Deposit

Risky Gospel: Abandon Fear and Build Something Awesome
by Owen Strachan


26.5 — Sept/Oct 2013

God Save the Queen

A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians by Timothy Larson


26.3 — May/June 2013

Readers & Believers

Inklings of Reality: Essays Toward a Christian Philosophy of Letters by Donald T. Williams


26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013

Imperial Science

Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga


26.1 — Jan/Feb 2013

Heart Work

Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers & Skeptics Find Faith
by Alister E. McGrath


25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012

Detectives of Significance

Sherlock Holmes, Umberto Eco & the Search for Meaning


25.4 — July/August 2012

Changing Churches

Journeys of Faith: Evangelicalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Anglicanism
edited by Robert L. Plummer


25.2 — March/April 2012

Highways of the Heart

Existential Reasons for Belief in God: A Defense of Desires and Emotions for Faith by Clifford Williams


24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011

Ancient Crossroads

Intimations of Jesus Christ in the Greek Tragedies


23.3 — May/June 2010

Roman Roads

Holy Ground: Walking with Jesus as a Former Catholic
by Chris Castaldo


23.3 — May/June 2010

Polonius’s Lie

on the Image of God & the Thine Own True Self


22.7 — September/October 2009

Manhattan Gospel

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller


22.4 — May 2009

Samaritan Witness

A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race
by Brenda Salter McNeil


22.3 — April 2009

Creating Equal

on the Inegalitarian Leadership of Jesus


21.5 — June 2008

Simply Asking

Question to All Your Answers:
A Journey From Folk Religion to Examined Faith by Roger E. Olson


21.4 — May 2008

Holy Probable

There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Anthony Flew, with Roy Abraham Varghese


20.8 — October 2007

Aliens in Zion

on Why I Can’t Be Just Another Earthman


20.7 — September 2007

Science Club

Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design
by Thomas Woodward


20.6 — July/August 2007

Practical Apologetic

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
by N. T. Wright


19.10 — December 2006

Alien Notion

John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus


19.9 — November 2006

Vessels of Honor

on All the Glory We Can Hold


18.6 — Nov/Dec 2005

Excluded Middle School

on Why C. S. Lewis Was Right About Chests


18.3 — April 2005

Intimations of Incarnation

The Apologetic Vision of Robert Browning


15.10 — December 2002

The Heirs of Galileo

on Evolution & Reasonable Science



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33.2—March/April 2020

How It Happens

Easy Descent on an Unguarded Road by S. M. Hutchens

25.4—July/August 2012

All the Lonely People

The Corrosive & Far-Reaching Fallout of the Sexual Revolution by Anthony Esolen

33.1—January/February 2020

It's Personal

on the Consequences of One Birth Before Roe v. Wade by Craig Kellogg Galer

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