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“. . . I cannot myself imagine a more fearful fate for our species than that they should so habituate themselves to their earthly circumstances as to be finally contented with them, or a more sublime one than that they should continue till the end of time to peer into the distance after the land that is very far off. . . .”
Jesus Rediscovered (1969)
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31.6 — November/December 2018
The Critical Role of Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
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Prevarications About Abortion in the Highest Places by R. V. Young
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Metaverse Delusions vs. the Reality of Body & Soul by Boyd R. Collins
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“Religion” Is Not the Right Response to Such Evil by S. M. Hutchens
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Sean C. Hadley on Russell Kirk’s "Ex Tenebris" & the Moral Imagination
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Lessons from Early Christians . . . and from Our Great-Grandparents by Allan C. Carlson
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The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
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Christian Pro-Family Governments?
Old & New Lessons from Europe—from the 2019 Touchstone Conference by Allan C. Carlson
33.2—March/April 2020
Encounters with Faith & Forgiveness in Communities of Faith by Nicole M. King
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Novel Conversion
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
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The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World
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Shortfall
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