editorials

Ashamed of the Gospel?

The End of Comfortable Christianity
by Robert P. George

communiqué

Transfigure or Die Trying

American Orthodoxy in the Public Square
by Alexander F. C. Webster

columns

A Thousand Words

Portico de la Gloria by Master Mateo

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

Illuminations

Muddled Hymns

by Anthony Esolen

As It Is Written...

Lord of Heaven & Earth

by Patrick Henry Reardon

From Heavenly Harmony

Mendelssohn, Memory & Melody

by Ken Myers

Mortal Remains

But Is It Interesting?

by S. M. Hutchens

28.3—May/June 2015

features

Of Bicycles, Sex, & Natural Law

Describing Human Ends & Our Limitations Is Neither Futile Nor Unloving
by R. V. Young

No Country for Young Children

What Kind of Society Can Countenance Such Evil?
by Anthony Esolen

The Spy Who Turned Witness

Whittaker Chambers's Lonely War Against Godless Collectivism
by Hunter Baker

views

Beyond Words

David Warren on Giving & Getting Attention in the Religious Classroom

Spirited Hearts

Stephen Muse on Why Men Without Chests Are Not Free & Do Not Love

Dumb Sheep

James S. Spiegel on the Truth About a Slanderous Accusation

Deep Convictions

Robert Hart on the Formation of Conscience for Good or Ill

book reviews

French Future Tense

Soumission by Michel Houellebecq
reviewed by Graeme Hunter

An Engaged Woman

Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More— Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior
reviewed by Joseph Stuchal

The Moral Physician

Practicing Medicine and Ethics: Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, and Goals of Care by Lauris Christopher Kaldjian
reviewed by Christopher Tollefsen

The Other Americas

The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity by Todd Hartch
reviewed by Leon J. Podles

departments

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