editorials

How Firm a Foundation?

Greatness Comes from Above
by James M. Kushiner



quodlibet

The Lord's Encyclical

by S. M. Hutchens

A Pyrrhic Victory?

by R. V. Young

Godless Analysis

by S. M. Hutchens

David’s Son & Lord

by Donald T. Williams

The Normal State

by S. M. Hutchens

Ill-Fitting

by S. M. Hutchens


anno domini

Passage of the Supremacy Act

November 3, 1534
by James M. Kushiner


Apollo 8

December 24, 1968
by J. Douglas Johnson


columns

Book Returns

The Divine Conspiracy Revisited

The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God by Dallas Willard

by D. Eric Schansberg


Mortal Remains

“Higher Criticism”—A Note to a Friend

by S. M. Hutchens


Hear & Understand

Listening That Demands Effort: Messiaen

by Christopher Hoyt


Illuminations

Four Feasts

by Anthony Esolen


A Thousand Words

Old Saint Peter’s: The Constantinian Basilica

by Mary Elizabeth Podles


As It Is Written...

Joshua & the Holy Land

by Patrick Henry Reardon



38.6—Nov/Dec 2025

features

Making the Best of Dystopia

St. Antony’s Guide to Resisting the Transhumanist Temptation
by C. R. Wiley


Prodigious Adolescence

Reclaiming the Normal Path to Mature Adulthood
by Anthony Esolen


The Fixed Pains of Hell

C. S. Lewis’s Defense of the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment
by Donald T. Williams


The Priest & the Magician

The Choice Between Contemplation & Control of Nature
by N. E. Ziegenhagen


views

The Riddles of God

Rebecca Sicree on Hunting the Hidden Things of Christmas

The Trinitarian Factor

Joshua Steely on the Key to Cultural Recovery

book reviews

The Sexual Reformation

A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521–1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
reviewed by Allan C. Carlson


Latter-Day Paper Trail

Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet by John G. Turner
reviewed by Joseph Martin


departments

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