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“. . . The terrible fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell. . . .”
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (1971)
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25.3 — May/June 2012
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How Planned Parenthood's Founder Played the Christians, and Won by Allan C. Carlson
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Liberalism & the Ancient Enemy of Our Children by Allan C. Carlson
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The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
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The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan
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Christian Pro-Family Governments?
Old & New Lessons from Europe—from the 2019 Touchstone Conference by Allan C. Carlson
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Contours of Culture
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Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
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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
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32.5 — September/October, 2019
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
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A review by James A. Altena
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Strategic Christians
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
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A review by Jesse Russell
32.2 — March/April, 2019
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by Michael D. O'Brien
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