editorials

Just Christians

On Homosexuality & Christian Identity
by S. M. Hutchens

columns

First Books

Cooney & Rylant

by Kathie Johnson

As It Is Written...

Amos into Scripture

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Illuminations

Patriot Dust

by Anthony Esolen

A Thousand Words

Jan van Eyck's The Madonna in a Church

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

Contours of Culture

Trinity & Modernity

Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity

by Ken Myers

26.4—July/August 2013

features

Pauline Scholar, Meet Homeric Scholar

How Textual Analysis Misses Authorial Genius & Literary Inspiration
by Anthony Esolen

The Door to Paradise

A Christian Reflection on the Attractions & Shortcomings of Buddhism
by Franklin Freeman

Kramer's Criteria

Hilton Kramer's Life of Cultural Discernment Meant Speaking Truth to Art
by Bradley W. Anderson

Euripides' Beatific Vision

An Ancient Greek Drama Awakened a Powerful New Longing in Its Audiences
by James Ware

views

Notes on the Sect System

S. M. Hutchens on the Unchristian Maneuvers of the Sectarian Mind

Feint of Heart

Kenneth D. Whitehead on a So-Called Truce in the War Against Marriage

Cyber Schooling

Arthur W. Hunt III on Internet Universities & Flesh-and-Blood Teachers 

On the Road to Paul

Patrick Henry Reardon on Why the Apostle to the Gentiles Changed His Name

book reviews

God's Child

The Odd Thomas Series
by Dean Koontz
reviewed by Hunter Baker

Primary Graces

When I Was a Child I Read Books
by Marilynne Robinson
reviewed by Mark Gignilliat

Can These Bones Live?

The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying
by Jeffrey P. Bishop
reviewed by Raymond Barfield

departments

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