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Restoring Masculinity Outside the Feminist Frame by Mark Perkins
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Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason by Samuel Gregg
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Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles
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Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen
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From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
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As It Is Written . . .
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14.4 — May 2001
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17.4 — May 2004
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Oliver O'Donovan's Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics
22.6 — July/August 2009
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
16.5 — June 2003
16.4 — May 2003
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
16.2 — March 2003
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15.6 — July/August 2002
An Interview with Norwegian Dissident Roald Flemestad
14.4 — May 2001
Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia
book reviews
38.3 — May/Jun, 2025
Down But Not Out
Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream by Timothy S. Goeglein
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Divinely Detailed
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
A review by Charles Carman
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
Latter-Day Paper Trail
Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet by John G. Turner
A review by Joseph Martin
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
The Sexual Reformation
A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521–1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
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