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Principles for Living in the Negative World
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Patrick Henry Reardon on Proverbial Answers for Annoying Questions
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Blake Adams on Lectionaries & the Reading of Scripture as Worship
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A Guidepost in Our Current Misery
Chateaubriand’s The Genius of Christianity by Alexander T. Riley
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Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith
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on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
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Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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The Leading Edge
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(2001–2013)
22.4 — May 2009
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
24.4 — July/August 2011
24.2 — March/April 2011
Colin Gunton's Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology
26.6 — Nov/Dec 2013
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
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15.6 — July/August 2002
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
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6.3 — Summer 1993
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17.6 — July/August 2004
An conversation with William A. Dembski, Phillip E. Johnson, Jed Macosko, Paul Nelson, Edward Sisson, Richard Weikart, and Jonathan Witt About the Past, Present & Future of Darwinism & Design
book reviews
35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022
A Reclamation
In Defense of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful: On the Loss of Transcendence and the Decline of the West by Jordan Cooper
A review by Samuel G. Parkison
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
What Is Memory For?
Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War by Joseph T. Stuart
A review by James E. Person, Jr.
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
Points of Contact
The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif
A review by Louis Markos
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
One Big Phony War
Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity, and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World by David Hutchings and James C. Ungureanu
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