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editorials

Uniform Prayers

by Russell D. Moore

report

A Catholic Mystery Writer

The Best English-Language Vatican Reporter Is Hard to Read
by Austin Ruse

columns

Book Return

Moderns Forever Be Holden

by Douglas Jones

As It Is Written...

Like a Rock

by Patrick Henry Reardon

19.6—July/August 2006

features

Our Faith Observed

The Three-Fold Cord of Imagination, Reason & Will in C. S. Lewis
by Michael Ward

New Roads from Rome

The Surprising & Unpredictable Pilgrimage of the New Ecumenism
by Kenneth D. Whitehead

An Ecclesiastical Mind

An Evangelical Appreciation of Karl Barth
by Timothy George

The Catholic Court Appeal

Why So Many Catholic Justices on the Supreme Court? Why Now?
by Robert F. Cochran, Jr.

views

Dozens of Cousins

Anthony Esolen on Learning from Those Who Have to Like You, Even When They Don’t

Unfashioned Kids

Mary Walsh on Companies That Corrupt Children

Recreational Sect

James M. Harrison on the Biker Pastor’s Comfortable Religion

Guide for the Cineplexed

John Parker on Churches That Give You What You Want, But Not What You Need

book reviews

The Unfit To Be Tied

Margaret Sanger?s
Eugenic Legacy:
The Control of Female Fertility
by Angela Franks
reviewed by Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Kill-De-Sac

Death By Suburb: How To Keep the Suburbs From Killing Your Soul
by David L. Goetz
reviewed by Raymond J. Keating

Swung Vote

Sandra Day O?connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
by Joan Biskupic
reviewed by Laura Echevarria

Bach & Awe

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life In Pictures And Documents
by Hans Conrad Fischer
reviewed by Robert Hart

Prime Removal

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
by Matthew Stewart
reviewed by Graeme Hunter

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