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Principles for Living in the Negative World
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Patrick Henry Reardon on Proverbial Answers for Annoying Questions
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A Guidepost in Our Current Misery
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Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life' by Stratford Caldecott
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34.1—January/February 2021
Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware
31.5—September/October 2018
Errands into the Moral Wilderness
Forms of Christian Family Witness & Renewal by Allan C. Carlson
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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19.2 — March 2006
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The Leading Edge
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
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Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
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22.8 — November/December 2009
An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden
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35.1 — January/February, 2022
Crucial Witness
Glory Wrapped in Shame: An Exegetical Study of the Passion Narrative
in the Gospel of St. John, Highlighting Its Historical and Theological Insights by Abraham Oommen
A review by John G. Panagiotou
35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
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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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35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
Unreal Liberals
The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism by D. C. Schindler
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