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editorials

The Arius Method

Singing Away Doctrines You Don’t Like
by S. M. Hutchens



quodlibet

Martha Musings

by Audora Burg

Either/Or

by Donald T. Williams

Textual Maturity

by S. M. Hutchens


anno domini

Athanasius’s 39th Festal Letter

January 7, 367
by J. Douglas Johnson


Diocletian’s Persecution Begins

February 24, 303
by James M. Kushiner


columns

Mortal Remains

Final Words on Preaching

by S. M. Hutchens


Hear & Understand

Counterpoint & Thomas Tallis’s Miserere nostri

by Christopher Hoyt


First Books

North Africa

by Kathie Johnson


Illuminations

Filled with the Savior

by Anthony Esolen


A Thousand Words

Caravaggio’s The Conversion on the Road to Damascus

by Mary Elizabeth Podles


As It Is Written...

The Structure of the Fall

by Patrick Henry Reardon



39.1—Jan/Feb 2026

features

Camp Mystic

A Meditation on Childhood, Suffering & Longing
by Sarah Winter


Nothing Personal

Sexual Functionalism & Promiscuous Habits in Tolstoy’s The Devil
by Michial Farmer


Male Pattern Boldness

Restoring Masculinity Outside the Feminist Frame
by Mark Perkins


Set Out into Deep Waters

Daring to Seek Meaning & Magnificence
by Anthony Esolen


“It’s Almost As If We’d Lost the War”

That Hideous Strength & the Negative World
by R. V. Young


views

Knot Now

Brad Wilcox on the Case for Twenty-Something Marriages

The Siege of Verona

Allan C. Carlson on the Spectacle at the Thirteenth World Congress of Families

Rich Kids

C. R. Wiley on Wealth & the True Cost of Having Children

The Man of a Single Woman

David Mills on the Desperate Need to Flee Abstractions

Common-Sense Chastity

Sarah J. Durham on G. E. Moore, Pius XII & the Power of God

Is It Not a Child?

Alexander T. Riley on James Q. Wilson’s “On Abortion” in the Post-Dobbs Classroom

book reviews

Storied Truths

The Stones Cry Out! Reflections on the Myths We Live By
by David V. Hicks
reviewed by Louis Markos


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