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Positively Christian

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Positively Christian

Principles for Living in the Negative World
by Aaron Renn

Rules for Fools

38:4 — july/august 2025

Rules for Fools

Patrick Henry Reardon on Proverbial Answers for Annoying Questions

Rightly Dividing the Word

38:4 — july/august 2025

Rightly Dividing the Word

Blake Adams on Lectionaries & the Reading of Scripture as Worship

The Gnostic Thread

38:4 — july/august 2025

Fundamentalism

A Cross We Must Now Take Up by S. M. Hutchens

A Guidepost in Our Current Misery

38:3 — may/june 2025

A Guidepost in Our Current Misery

Chateaubriand’s The Genius of Christianity by Alexander T. Riley

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America After Christianity

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Neopaganism's Dark Enchantment

—John Daniel Davidson

September 28, 2024

The Urgency of Wonder

—Rod Dreher

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Principles for Living in the Negative World

—Aaron Renn

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33.4—July/August 2020

Pondering Evil

on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard

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Clashing Symbols

The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft

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30.6—Nov/Dec 2017

The Greatness Commission

Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen

22.3—April 2009

Wasted by Watching

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles

35.2—Mar/Apr 2022

Say Something

on Fatigued Christians Deciding to Engage the Culture by Keith Lowery

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

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A Threefold Cord

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A Sign of Contradiction

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From Heavenly Harmony

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37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Restless Beauty

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Apprehending the Music of Being

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A Thousand Words

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First Books

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North/Central Europe—Fiction

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North-Central Europe

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Three Tests

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

The Best of the Good

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

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Second Thoughts on Saul

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All Their Cosmos

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Thinking on Hannah

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19.1 — January/February 2006

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by Phillip E. Johnson

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(2001–2013)

22.2 — March 2009

Thought for Food

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Casualties of the Drug Lords

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Ethics in a Vacuum

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Flying High at Trinity

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Empty Spaces of the Word

16.3 — April 2003

Choosing Truth or Power

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

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(1993–2004)

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Breaking Teeth

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The Winged Man

13.4 — May 2000

Ecclesiastical Math

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13.1 — January/February 2000

A Double Take on Early Christianity

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Latvia Revived

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15.6 — July/August 2002

Out on a Limb in Norway

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book reviews

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Minority Warning
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
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35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Son of Odysseus
Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse by Jonathan Golding
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35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
edited with an introduction by George Weigel

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35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

The Last Cavalier Poet
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