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“. . . A man who has never had that experience [of the Prodigal Son], be it only very briefly, who has never felt that he is exiled from God and from real life, will never understand what Christianity is about. And the one who is perfectly "at home" in this world and its life, who has never been wounded by the nostalgic desire for another Reality, will not understand what is repentance. . . .”
"The Sunday of the Prodigal Son," Great Lent (1974)
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9.1 — Winter 1996
On the Loss of Poetry as Necessary Knowledge by Steven Faulkner
31.6 — November/December 2018
The Critical Role of Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
on the Suffering of Faith & the Paradox of Psalm 88 by Stephen Muse
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
It's Not What Some Think It Should Be
by J. Douglas Johnson
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His Recent Voyage Off the Flat Earth of Revisionist Historians
by Alexander F. C. Webster
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
Christina Ray Stanton on a Firsthand Encounter with Terror & Conversion
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
Reading Beowulf, Magnifying Christ
What Tolkien Taught Me About the Gospels
by Gavin T. Richardson
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
The Love of Purity Opens Our Minds to a Radiant Mystery by Anthony Esolen
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from the archives on imagination (21 articles)
19.10—December 2006
Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills
11.5—September/October 1998
Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
An Essay on Myth &“Real Life” by Stratford Caldecott
from the archives on family (81 articles)
23.1—January/February 2010
It’s Bent on Bringing Down the House on the Family & the Church by Douglas Farrow
34.1—January/February 2021
Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware
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book reviews
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
A review by J. Daryl Charles
32.4 — July/August, 2019
Novel Conversion
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
by Cynthia L. Haven
A review by David K. Anderson
32.2 — March/April, 2019
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The Apocalypse: Warning, Hope & Consolation
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32.6 — November/December, 2019
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