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editorials

Thank God We’re Not Equal

by Anthony Esolen

forum

Back & Forth to the Future

A Critical Symposium on A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future
by Wilfred M. McClay

columns

Book Return

Life in a Feed Lot

by Michael E. Bailey

As It Is Written...

Handling the Holy

by Patrick Henry Reardon

19.9—November 2006

features

The Pillars of Imprecation

How to Pray for Your Enemies by Praying Against Them
by John N. Day

The Long Culture War

The Christian Democratic Response to Modernity & Materialism
by Allan C. Carlson

views

Vessels of Honor

Louis Markos on All the Glory We Can Hold

Missionary Moms

Lynette Hoppe on the Advantages of Having Children in a Foreign Land

Idols & the King

Francis J. Manion on What the First Commandment Has to Do with the Fourth of July

Rites & Wrongs of Passage

An Episcopal Priest on Casual Ministers & Reverent Marines

book reviews

Trapped by Liberty

Stuck With Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future
by Peter Augustine Lawler
reviewed by Anne Hendershott

Fighting Herod

The Physicians? Crusade Against Abortion
by Frederick N. Dyer
reviewed by John F. Quinn

The Polish Factor

Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium
by Pope John Paul II
reviewed by Mark Wegierski

The Scarlet Thread

From Witchery to Sanctity: The Religious Vicissitudes of the Hawthornes
by Otto and Katharine Bird
reviewed by Franklin Freeman

Reformed Schools

Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
by Thomas Albert Howard
reviewed by S. M. Hutchens

Priest of the Cosmos

The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaître, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
reviewed by Guillermo Gonzalez

departments

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