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“ . . . If becoming virtuous involves perfecting the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual habits constitutive of human flourishing, we cannot understand vice as harm so much as a lack of some perfection. Even when he is free from duress, the vicious person is unfree because he lacks some ability for living well the virtuous person possesses; he is unfree in the way that an untutored string scratcher isn't free to play beautiful music like Yo Yo Ma. . . . ”
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Sexual Reality, Procreation & the Wisdom of Virtuous Love by Joshua Schulz
32.01 — January/February 2019
Answers Secular & Religious
31.06 — November/December 2018
Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source
31.05 — September/October 2018
The Rise of the Gnostic Liberal State After Christianity
from the current issue—november/december 2019
32:6 — november/december 2019
Brendon Sylvester on a Romanian Cautionary Tale for Fallible Pastors
32:6— november/december 2019
The Holy Spirit Is Alive & Active in Narnia by Thomas Williams
32:6 — november/december 2019
Christian Politics Is Not of This World by James M. Kushiner
32:6 — november/december 2019
Christian Faith & Formation in Rural Alabama by Maclin Horton
2019 conference videos (see all)
October 11, 2019
The Quest for Congruence in a Culture of Conformity
—Russell D. Moore
from the archives on history (81 articles)
31.1—January/February 2018
on Ragnarök, an Extreme Weather Event & the Paths to Conversion by Timothy J. Burbery
14.6—July/August 2001
The Transformed Relics of the Fall
on the Fulfillment of History in Christ by Patrick Henry Reardon
from the archives on culture (119 articles)
22.3—April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles
19.4—May 2006
The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides by Howard P. Kainz
from the archives on imagination (20 articles)
18.4—May 2005
The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
columns
Illuminations
on Christian hymns
33.1 — January/February 2020
32.6 — November/December 2019
32.5 — September/October 2019
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
33.1 — January/February 2020
32.6 — November/December 2019
32.5 — September/October 2019
on works of Christian art
33.1 — January/February 2020
32.6 — November/December 2019
32.5 — September/October 2019
on books for children
33.1 — January/February 2020
32.5 — September/October 2019
32.3 — May/June 2019
Mortal Remains
on theology and culture
33.1 — January/February 2020
32.6 — November/December 2019
32.5 — September/October 2019
As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
33.1 — January/February 2020
32.6 — November/December 2019
32.5 — September/October 2019
book reviews
32.5 — September/October, 2019
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—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
by Alan Jacobs—A review by Jesse Russell
32.3 — May/June, 2019
Shame & Redemption
The Crucifix on Mecca's Front Porch: A Christian's Companion for the Study of Islam—A review by Casey Chalk
32.5 — September/October, 2019
Healing East & West
The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World
by Vigen Guroian—A review by John G. Panagiotou
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