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“. . . Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of Western culture for almost twenty centuries. If it were possible, with some sort of super magnet, to pull up out of that history every scrap of metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would be left? . . .”
quoted in The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022
35:5 — september/october 2022
Prevarications About Abortion in the Highest Places by R. V. Young
35:5 — september/october 2022
Metaverse Delusions vs. the Reality of Body & Soul by Boyd R. Collins
35:5 — september/october 2022
“Religion” Is Not the Right Response to Such Evil by S. M. Hutchens
35:5 — september/october 2022
Sean C. Hadley on Russell Kirk’s "Ex Tenebris" & the Moral Imagination
35:5 — september/october 2022
Lessons from Early Christians . . . and from Our Great-Grandparents by Allan C. Carlson
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from the archives on imagination (21 articles)
11.5—September/October 1998
Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life' by Stratford Caldecott
18.4—May 2005
The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
from the archives on family (87 articles)
32.4—July/August 2019
Today's Culture Wars Are Both Ancient & Modern by Allan C. Carlson
33.3—May/June 2020
Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East by Carrie Frederick Frost
Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy by Laura S. Jansson
by Agnes R. Howard
24.4—July/August 2011
The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan
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(2001–2013)
16.1 — January/February 2003
20.8 — October 2007
17.8 — October 2004
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
27.2 — March/April 2014
Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
23.5 — September/October 2010
The Matter at Hand
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15.8 — October 2002
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pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
11.1 — January/February 1998
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book reviews
32.4 — July/August, 2019
Then They Will Come for Us
Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis by Matthew D. Hockenos
A review by J. Daryl Charles
32.2 — March/April, 2019
The Aura of Science
Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West, Volume II
by Paul Gosselin
A review by Louis Markos
32.5 — September/October, 2019
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A review by James A. Altena
32.2 — March/April, 2019
Wake-Up Call
The Apocalypse: Warning, Hope & Consolation
by Michael D. O'Brien
A review by Jeffrey Wald
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