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“ . . . Seldom if ever heard these days has been the story of the early Christians who wore their commitments to chastity, fidelity, and a welcoming attitude to new human life as armor in earlier ages of moral and sexual barbarism. Too rarely has the beauty, dignity, and satisfaction of a Christian marriage been well presented as a powerfully renewing event in the course of human affairs. Sadly, few if any of the legal changes noted above would probably have occurred if the churches in America had been awake, united in their vital consensus on these matters, and strong. . . . ”
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33.4—July/August 2020
on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
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An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton by James Bryson
32.5—September/October 2019
Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter
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From Heavenly Harmony
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