editorials

Passing It On

Benedict XVI's Fidelity on Behalf of the Faithful
by S. M. Hutchens

Hard to Swallow

Public Health, Government Obesity & Church Resistance
by Patrick Henry Reardon

interview

Whispers of Doom

Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion
by Les Sillars

columns

A Thousand Words

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

Contours of Culture

The Lost Sense of Learning

Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor

by Ken Myers

As It Is Written...

Paul's Apology

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Illuminations

Our Quiet Lord

Pentecost and the Voice on the Mountain: The Silence of Holiness

by Anthony Esolen

The Leading Edge

A Doubting Thomas

by Phillip E. Johnson

26.3—May/June 2013

features

Endorsement and Academic Freedom

Debates About Commencement Speakers & Student Groups Reveal a Double Standard
by John Garvey

Into All the World

Testing John Loftus's "Outsider Test for Faith" Shows Why There Are Billions of Christians Today
by David Marshall

The Thessalonian Brothers

The Legacy of the Mission of Cyril & Methodius 1,150 Years Later
by Mark Eliot Nuckols

views

The Man Who Was Doodling

Dan DeWitt on G. K. Chesterton & the Art of Casual Sketching

The Logos of Beauty

Steve Baarendse on the Eyes of the Heart & the Glory of God

Blessed Assistance

Anthony Esolen on the Un-humanitarian Charity of Martin de Porres

The Pharmakon Athanasias

S. M. Hutchens on Worshiping the Lord Without Lying About the Faith

book reviews

Readers & Believers

Inklings of Reality: Essays Toward a Christian Philosophy of Letters by Donald T. Williams
reviewed by Louis Markos

A Fierce Holiness

The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor by Jonathan Rogers
reviewed by Ralph C. Wood

departments

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