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38.1—Jan/Feb, 2025
A Compromised Military’s Uncertain Future
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
Aaron Renn’s Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture
John Daniel Davidson’s Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Progressive Sovereignty, Sacredness & the U. S. Constitution
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Nostalgia Endures While Optimism Fades
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Conservatism, Maturity & the Demonic
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
The Sinful Manipulation of Weights & Measures
by Dylan Pahman & Alexander William Salter
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Tocqueville & the Sorry State of the Arts
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Lessons from Early Christians . . . and from Our Great-Grandparents
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
"Religion" Is Not the Right Response to Such Evil
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Prevarications About Abortion in the Highest Places
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America by Michael D. Breidenbach
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
Authority & Obedience in Our Stories
35.1—January/February, 2022
E. M. Forster's Prophetic View into Machine Culture
35.1—January/February, 2022
Can We Strengthen Our Congregations Before It's Too Late?
35.1—January/February, 2022
What Four Parades Reveal About the Future
35.1—January/February, 2022
A Plagiarized Genesis Is the Source for a Secular Utopia
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
on Signs of Mercy & Judgment at the World Trade Center
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West edited by David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
on a Firsthand Encounter with Terror & Conversion
34.4—July/August, 2021
The Failure of Liberal Public Reason & How to Respond
34.3—May/June, 2021
Puritanism & the Ideological Founding of America
34.3—May/June, 2021
Race, Religion & Reconciliation
Reflections on the Present American Moment
34.2—March/April, 2021
The Rise of Judicial Secularism & the Loss of Religious Freedom
34.2—March/April, 2021
A Christian Response to "The Case for Reparations"
34.1—January/February, 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher
34.1—January/February, 2021
34.1—January/February, 2021
Law and Gospel, Constitution and Church
34.1—January/February, 2021
34.1—January/February, 2021
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
on the Normal Necessity of Human Contact
33.5—September/October, 2020
Constitutionalism Without Christian Humanism
33.5—September/October, 2020
Dereliction of Duty Inside & Outside the Church
31.5—September/October, 2018
The Secular State Without the Decalogue
31.4—July/August, 2018
on America's 1950s Religion & Hope for Today
31.4—July/August, 2018
Places of Worship on the Road to Iron Nation
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
on Individualism in America & Its Cure
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
Why Selective Service for Women Is Immoral
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
The Christian Cure for What Ails Modern Politics
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution by Stephen Cox
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
The Senior Editors & the Presidency
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War by John C. Pinheiro
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
on the Deepening Loss of Religious Freedom & Our Response
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
on the Transformative Election of 2016
29.4—July/August, 2016
Russell Kirk: American Conservative by Bradley J. Birzer
29.4—July/August, 2016
A Review of Stacy Schiff's The Witches: Salem, 1692
29.4—July/August, 2016
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse
29.3—May/June, 2016
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ
29.2—March/April, 2016
The History of Family Strength in America May Reveal Good News
29.2—March/April, 2016
The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education
by Peter M. Mitchell
28.6—Nov/Dec, 2015
History, Theology & Mythmaking from a Deadly Encounter
28.4—July/Aug, 2015
Turning to Tradition: Converts and the Making of an American Orthodox Church by D. Oliver Herbel
28.3—May/June, 2015
The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity by Todd Hartch
28.2—March/April, 2015
An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
by Joseph Bottum
28.2—March/April, 2015
The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born Again Years
by Steven P. Miller
28.2—March/April, 2015
Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church
by Christian Smith, Kyle Longest, Jonathan Hill, and Kari Christoffersen
27.4—July/August, 2014
on Robert W. Fogel & the Christian Legacy on Slavery
27.4—July/August, 2014
The Measure of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Christian Faith
27.4—July/August, 2014
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberalism
by George M. Marsden
26.4—July/August, 2013
26.3—May/June, 2013
Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion
26.2—Mar/Apr, 2013
General George C. Marshall's Core Convictions & Ethical Leadership
25.5—Sept/Oct, 2012
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by Charles Murray
23.4—July/August, 2010
American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile by Richard John Neuhaus
22.8—November/December, 2009
Social Sins Are Easily & Fashionably Confessed
22.7—September/October, 2009
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (Early American Studies)
22.6—July/August, 2009
Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change In the Church and the Quest for Meaning by Kerry Kennedy
22.6—July/August, 2009
World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital
to American National Security
by Thomas F. Farr
22.5—June, 2009
American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism by Thomas S. Kidd
22.1—January/February, 2009
A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America by John A. D'Elia
21.9—November, 2008
The Legacy of Billy Graham: Critical Reflections on America’s Greatest Evangelist edited by Michael G. Long
21.7—September, 2008
The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women’s
Values
by Katherine Adam and Charles Derber
21.6—July/August, 2008
on Finding Molehills to Conquer
21.4—May, 2008
Freedom’s Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of America’s Children by David L. Tubbs
21.1—January/February, 2008
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
by Matthew Avery Sutton
20.9—November, 2007
The Patriot Loves His Land Because It Is a Shadow
20.6—July/August, 2007
From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority
by Roger Lundin
20.6—July/August, 2007
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
by Elizabeth Kantor
20.4—May, 2007
Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage
by Allan Carlson
20.2—March, 2007
on the Foolproof Test for Paganism
19.9—November, 2006
on What the First Commandment Has to Do with the Fourth of July
19.9—November, 2006
Stuck With Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future
by Peter Augustine Lawler
19.7—September, 2006
Our Endangered Values:
America’s Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
19.4—May, 2006
The Right To Be Wrong:
Ending the Culture War over Religion in America
by Kevin Seamus Hasson
19.4—May, 2006
Some of America’s Most Promising Youth Are Seeking an Even Higher Education
19.3—April, 2006
America’s Largest Protestant Denomination & the Culture War
19.2—March, 2006
Home-Alone America:
The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
by Mary Eberstadt
18.9—November, 2005
Cherishing the America We Were Not Made For
18.7—September, 2005
Theologians Pit Christ Against Imperial America
17.8—October, 2004
On the Two Values that Matter Most
13.3—April, 2000
Reinventing American Protestantism
by Donald E. Miller
13.7—September, 2000
on American Pop Culture
14.4—May, 2001
Bill Clinton Was Right! (About the Human Genome)
15.3—April, 2002
America's Bishop
by Thomas C. Reeves
15.7—September, 2002
on the Crises of the American Catholic Church
15.7—September, 2002
Capital Punishment & Cultural Change in American Life
16.4—May, 2003
America?s God by Mark A. Noll
16.3—April, 2003
Media Bias & Blindness—And the Big Story They Missed
16.3—April, 2003
16.3—April, 2003
Stanley Hauerwas: ?America?s Best Theologian?
14.9—November, 2001
Lincoln's Historic Proclamation Appointing a National Day of Prayer & Fasting—A Sidebar to "The Essence & Power of Evil"
12.6—November/December, 1999
The American Myth
of Religious Freedom
by Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.
12.1—January/February, 1999
Reflections on “Revising Our Pledges of Allegiance”
on “Christian America”
11.5—September/October, 1998
Revising Our Pledges of Allegiance
From “Christian America” to the Gospel of the Resurrection
10.1—Winter, 1997
The Debate over the Family in the American Political “Village”
6.3—Summer, 1993
Ordination and the Crisis of Leadership in American Protestantism
3.4—Winter, 1990
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America
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25.6—Nov/Dec 2012
The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
28.6—Nov/Dec 2015
on the Deepest Longings of the Restless & the Lonely by William Graddy
33.3—May/June 2020
on the Wisdom of the Good Doctor Edmund Pellegrino by Allen H. Roberts II
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