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32.4—July/August, 2019
Pastor Prime
on a Steady Presence in an Unsteady World by Preston Jones
32.4—July/August, 2019
Sojourner Knight
on Single-Mindedness in Dürer's Ritter, Tod, und Teufel by Anthony Costello
32.4—July/August, 2019
Rigidity
by S.M. Hutchens
32.4—July/August, 2019
The Habit of Community
Reception, Gratitude, & Witness on a Christian Campus
by Matthew D. Wright by Matthew D. Wright
32.4—July/August, 2019
32.4—July/August, 2019
To Spread His Glory
Four Theses on Christian Education by Donald T. Williams
32.3—May/June, 2019
Glory Himself
C. S. Lewis on the Blessed Sacrament by Walter Hooper
32.3—May/June, 2019
Bird Calls & Summonses
on Seeing with a "Devout, Intransitive Eye" by William Graddy
32.3—May/June, 2019
32.3—May/June, 2019
Shame & Redemption
The Crucifix on Mecca's Front Porch: A Christian's Companion for the Study of Islam by Casey Chalk
32.3—May/June, 2019
on the Infinite Problem of Goods & Evil
32.3—May/June, 2019
on the Implications of Changing the Pater Noster
32.2—March/April, 2019
Misguided Mercy & Dante's Infernal Purgation
32.2—March/April, 2019
32.2—March/April, 2019
Axios!
The Good Pastor Finishes His Course by S. M. Hutchens
32.2—March/April, 2019
32.2—March/April, 2019
on Properly Rendering Things to Caesar & to God
32.2—March/April, 2019
Voices Uplifted
The Spiritual & Sacramental Choir of the Body of Christ by Christopher Hoyt
32.1—January/February, 2019
Role Reversals
Sex, Women's Ordination & the Rejection of Hierarchy & Equality by James A. Altena
32.1—January/February, 2019
Once Removed
on Sectarian Endurance & Women's Ordination by S. M. Hutchens
31.6—November/December, 2018
31.6—November/December, 2018
Tragedy & Transcendence
on Futility & the Open Door to Deliverance by Patrick Henry Reardon
31.6—November/December, 2018
Onward & Upward with Dante
on the Paradiso as Light for the Christian Mind by Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard
31.6—November/December, 2018
France's Reign of Terror & the Witness of the Church Militant
31.6—November/December, 2018
More Solid Ground
The Morals of the Story: Good News About a Good God
by David and Marybeth Baggett by Jeremy S. Neill
31.5—September/October, 2018
on the Congregation as a Wilderness
31.4—July/August, 2018
In "God" We Trusted
on America's 1950s Religion & Hope for Today by D. Eric Schansberg
31.4—July/August, 2018
31.4—July/August, 2018
Life & Love Are Real Despite Theatrical Illusions
31.4—July/August, 2018
Out of the Box
Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor by Louis Markos
31.4—July/August, 2018
High on the Lolo
on God's Pictures of Life & Death & Eternity by Steven Faulkner
31.4—July/August, 2018
Poet of Heaven & Earth
His Thoughts Are Not Our Thoughts, Nor His Words by David Lyle Jeffrey
31.4—July/August, 2018
31.3—May/June, 2018
A Good Report
on Journalism as an Exercise of the Moral Imagination by Les Sillars
31.3—May/June, 2018
Net Mending
Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith
by Holly Ordway by Louis Markos
31.3—May/June, 2018
Jesus in Thailand
by Casey Chalk
31.3—May/June, 2018
on Christ's Commandments & True Discipleship
31.3—May/June, 2018
Billy Graham's Legacy Is All Around Us
31.2—March/April, 2018
Judge Not
on Being the Biggest Sinner in the Room by David C. Brenner
31.2—March/April, 2018
31.2—March/April, 2018
Holy Prosperity
on a Strength That Is from God Alone by Diane Woerner
31.2—March/April, 2018
The Transmission of Christianity Is Not a New Task
31.2—March/April, 2018
on Insights from the Rule of Columbanus
31.1—January/February, 2018
A Melodious Life
How Polyphony & the Cantus Firmus Can Illuminate Integrity by Lauris C. Kaldjian
31.1—January/February, 2018
A Great Cloud of Moral Witness
on the Solid Historical Consensus Regarding Homosexual Practice by James S. Spiegel
31.1—January/February, 2018
Model Marriage
An Appeal to the Churches Concerning Marriage Vows by W. Ross Blackburn
31.1—January/February, 2018
on Ragnarök, an Extreme Weather Event & the Paths to Conversion
31.1—January/February, 2018
Dealing with Trump
A Comfort Zone for Christians Remains Elusive by James Hitchcock
31.1—January/February, 2018
Consumer Man versus Working Man: Thoughts on the Value of Work
31.1—January/February, 2018
on Taking the Measure of the Deserving & the Undeserving Poor
31.1—January/February, 2018
The Tears of Jesus
on Augustine & Refusing to Grieve As Others Do by Kevin Raedy
31.1—January/February, 2018
Tailor-Made for Evil
Hiding Foul Things with Garments of Legal Fictions by Joshua Hren
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Yes, Virginia, There Is a God
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
on Benedict XVI on the Fairest of the Sons of Men
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Christianity & the Liberal Society
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
The Christian Cure for What Ails Modern Politics
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
The Upper Stories
on the Importance of Narrative in Christian Formation by Tara L. Jernigan
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
The Critical History Before, During & After Martin Luther
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
Polar Composites
by S. M. Hutchens
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
Departed or Converted?
Two Tales of God-Talk on Death Row by Peter Maurice
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
Gospel Marketplace
American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution by Stephen Cox by Leon J. Podles
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
When the Inevitable Questions of Suffering Confront the Living God
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
Altering All Things
Despair, Imagination & the Re-enchantment of the World by Michial Farmer
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
Ritual & Word Play
on Ancient & Modern Witnesses to a Fruitful Endowment by Steven Faulkner
30.3—May/June, 2017
The Look of Revelation
Christian Formation in Our Apocalyptic Age by Peter J. Leithart
30.3—May/June, 2017
30.3—May/June, 2017
Professor Faustus
on Modern Education as a Deal with the Devil
by Robert Erle Barham
30.3—May/June, 2017
An Invitation to Look Outside the Box of Materialism
30.3—May/June, 2017
When Hearts Become Flame: An Eastern Orthodox Approach to the Dia-Logos of Pastoral Counseling (2nd ed.) by Stephen Muse
30.2—March/April, 2017
The Fullness of Mercy
Western Literature & the Illumination of a Divine Attribute by Christine Schintgen
30.2—March/April, 2017
on Pacifism Today & in the Early Church
30.2—March/April, 2017
The Look of Acts
What the Church Steadfastly Does Every Sunday by Robert Hart
30.2—March/April, 2017
on Reading Don Quixote in Its Original Christian Context
30.2—March/April, 2017
Housekeeping
Beware Scandalizing Unbelievers by Patrick Henry Reardon
30.2—March/April, 2017
Our Path to Holiness Runs Straight Through Calvary
30.2—March/April, 2017
As It Was in the Beginning
Unchanging Witness: The Consistent Christian Teaching on Homosexuality in Scripture and Tradition by S. Donald Fortson III and Rollin G. Grams by Michael Philliber
30.2—March/April, 2017
The Education of Children Takes Generations of Fidelity
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
on Captain Kirk, Contraception & Christian Tradition
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
The World in a Grain of Sand
on the Importance of Poetry in Christian Education & Life by Bret J. Saunders
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
Up on the Farm
Where Young Christian Families Are Finding New Roots by Kathleen Curran Sweeney
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
The Virtue of Marriage
Truly Authentic Sex & Rightly Ordered Love by Tracy Jamison
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
George Parkin Grant on the Deep & Abiding Tension Between Christianity & Modernity
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
The Mustard Seed & the Wonders of His Kingdom
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
on the Burdens & Blessings of Beasts at Christmas
29.5—Sept/Oct, 2016
on Past & Present Atheism & the Invention of Happiness
29.5—Sept/Oct, 2016
Of Brides & Men
Heroic Service Is More Accessible to Christian Men than Nuptial Imagery by Maclin Horton
29.4—July/August, 2016
God's Gift of Metaphor
on George MacDonald & the Christian Imagination by Josh Mayo
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
29.3—May/June, 2016
For the Hill-Dwellers
Christians, Imperialism & the Rule of Law by S. M. Hutchens
29.3—May/June, 2016
Eastern Union
The Orthodox Dilemma: Personal Reflections on Global Pan-Orthodox Christian Conciliar Unity
by George Alexander by John G. Panagiotou
29.2—March/April, 2016
on Cutting Christ Down to One Size Fits Whatever We Want
29.2—March/April, 2016
Weather or Not
on Christian Stewardship & Climate Change by Raymond J. Brown
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
Secular Credibility Is a Devilish Temptation
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
Fidei Defensor
Knowledge and Christian Belief
by Alvin Plantinga by Graeme Hunter
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
on Progressive Myths & Christianity's Deeper Revolution
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
on Marriage, Moral Corruption & the Christian Duty of Witness
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
Revealing Snapshots
People and Events That Shaped Christianity by Ralph E. MacKenzie by James Hitchcock
28.5—Sept/Oct, 2015
Christian Heroism & Humility in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien
28.4—July/Aug, 2015
Jewish Lewis Fans
on a Rabbi's Love for Mere Christianity by Clara Sarrocco
28.4—July/Aug, 2015
What All Clergy Can Learn from Billy Graham
28.3—May/June, 2015
on the Formation of Conscience for Good or Ill
28.3—May/June, 2015
The Other Americas
The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity
by Todd Hartch by Leon J. Podles
28.3—May/June, 2015
on the Truth About a Slanderous Accusation
28.2—March/April, 2015
on Divine Worship & the Natural Limits of Community
28.1—January/February, 2015
Gay Christians?
The Grave Danger Coming Out Poses to Christian Churches by Brian Patrick Mitchell
27.6—Nov/Dec, 2014
Man Completed
Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image
by John Behr by Alison Sailer Bennett
27.5—Sept/Oct, 2014
Shades of Divinity
On the God of the Christians (and on one or two others) by Rémi Brague by S. M. Hutchens
27.5—Sept/Oct, 2014
on Growing Vegetables as a Primer in Moral Philosophy
27.5—Sept/Oct, 2014
The Role of Christianity in Peter Drucker's Early Work
27.4—July/August, 2014
An Unexpected Apologist
on Robert W. Fogel & the Christian Legacy on Slavery by John Carpenter
27.4—July/August, 2014
One President, Under God
The Measure of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Christian Faith by Alan Sears
27.3—May/June, 2014
The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
by John L. Allen, Jr.
27.3—May/June, 2014
The Essential Ascension
by Patrick Henry Reardon
27.2—March/April, 2014
Our Final Draft
on the Revisionist Narrative of Christian Hope by Joshua Schulz
27.1—Jan/Feb, 2014
Forward Progress
Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society
by John Horvat II by Allan Carlson
26.6—Nov/Dec, 2013
The Gnostic Evangelist
The Neo-Gnostic "Alternative Christianity" of Elaine Pagels by William J. Tighe
26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013
Christian Schools & Racial Realities
on Desegregation & the Rise of Christian Education in the South
26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013
The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts
26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013
asks, What Happened to the Ten Commandments?
26.4—July/August, 2013
A Christian Reflection on the Attractions & Shortcomings of Buddhism
26.4—July/August, 2013
Notes on the Sect System
on the Unchristian Maneuvers of the Sectarian Mind by S. M. Hutchens
26.3—May/June, 2013
Into All the World
Testing John Loftus's "Outsider Test for Faith" Shows Why There Are Billions of Christians Today by David Marshall
26.3—May/June, 2013
Inklings of Reality: Essays Toward a Christian Philosophy of Letters by Donald T. Williams
26.3—May/June, 2013
The Legacy of the Mission of Cyril & Methodius 1,150 Years Later
26.2—Mar/Apr, 2013
The History & Revelation of Anamnesis in Platonic, Jewish & Christian Thought
26.2—Mar/Apr, 2013
on Liberal Klingons & the Hard Facts of Christian Faith
26.1—Jan/Feb, 2013
on Christian Honesty About the Harm of Fornication
25.5—Sept/Oct, 2012
on Death in Baptism as a Necessary Prerequisite to Resurrection
25.5—Sept/Oct, 2012
United in Reverence
on Christian Orthodoxy & the Self-Revelation of God by Christopher Jackson
25.4—July/August, 2012
on an Unnoticed Transformation of the Cause of Disease
25.4—July/August, 2012
on the Christian's Duty to Be Strictly Loving
25.4—July/August, 2012
The Trials of the Christian Wayfarer in the World
25.3—May/June, 2012
A Rabbi's Error
on Jonathan Sacks’s Mistake About Christians by Patrick Henry Reardon
25.3—May/June, 2012
on What We Used to Know vs. What We Know Now
25.2—March/April, 2012
The Secular & Anti-Christian Origins of the Holocaust
25.1—Jan/Feb, 2012
The Christian Humanism of Marshall McLuhan
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
The Lord's Truth & the Casualty of Politics
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
Divine Morals
At the Roots of Christian Bioethics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
edited by Ana Smith Iltis and Mark J. Cherry by Joseph Huneycutt
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
on a Stealthy Theft of Christian Holy Days
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
Hear the Angel Voices
on the Versified Dogma of Christian Worship by Thomas Howard
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
My 500-Mile Pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
The Many Parallels Between France’s Revolution & Today’s Anti-Christian Secularism
24.4—July/August, 2011
Christ & Culture, II
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy,
and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
by James Davison Hunter by J. Daryl Charles
24.3—May/June, 2011
Like, a Virgin?
on Christian Courtship & the Awkward Question of Sexual History by Russell D. Moore
24.2—March/April, 2011
Why "Apologetics" Is So Often Wrong
24.2—March/April, 2011
Fast Long & Prosper
on Christian Asceticism & the Misguided Quest for Longevity by Todd T. Daly
24.2—March/April, 2011
Acquainted with Grief
on the Christian’s Final Word About Suffering by Daniel Boerman
24.2—March/April, 2011
Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus
24.1—January/February, 2011
Ruminations on the Monstrous Envy of the Soul-Devouring State
24.1—January/February, 2011
How Planned Parenthood's Founder Played the Christians, and Won
24.1—January/February, 2011
Let No Man Join Together
An Orthodox Christian View of a Beseiged Sacrament by Vigen Guroian
23.5—September/October, 2010
Father Urban’s Lesson
on Real Christianity
for Losers by Thomas W. Jodziewicz
23.5—September/October, 2010
The Loss of a Christian Understanding of Virginity Is Pure Tragedy
23.4—July/August, 2010
My Friend in Exile
American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile
by Richard John Neuhaus by William L. Saunders
23.3—May/June, 2010
In the Christian World, Comedy Is King
23.3—May/June, 2010
The Christian & the Tattoo
23.2—March/April, 2010
on Maturity for a Rising Generation
23.2—March/April, 2010
On the Origins of the Primary Feast of the Christian Church
22.8—November/December, 2009
Pious, Profane & Perplexed
The Plain Man’s Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation
England
by Christopher Haigh by William J. Tighe
22.7—September/October, 2009
Christians Responding to Muslim Invitations Haven’t Been Listening to Benedict XVI
22.6—July/August, 2009
on the Integration of Anger into the Virtuous Life
22.5—June, 2009
on Mere Christianity That Is Not Merely Mine
22.5—June, 2009
The Life & Times of Anthony Comstock, Moral Crusader
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
22.4—May, 2009
When Gentile Meets Jew
A Christian Reading of Ruth & the Hebrew Scriptures by Peter J. Leithart
21.9—November, 2008
Up a Creek
on the Dangerous Success of Rudderless
Christianity by S. M. Hutchens
21.6—July/August, 2008
Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason
21.2—March, 2008
The Difference Between the Bible & the Koran Is Fermentation
20.8—October, 2007
on Why I Can’t Be Just Another Earthman
20.6—July/August, 2007
The Beowulf Poet Was a Shrewd Christian Apologist
20.3—April, 2007
Christ on the Silk Road
The Evidences of Nestorian Christianity in Ancient China by Glen L. Thompson
19.5—June, 2006
On the Picture of God We Draw with Words
18.10—December, 2005
on an Apostle’s Encounter with the Son’s Children
18.5—June, 2005
Soft Servants
Patriarchy, Marriage & the Future of Evangelical Christianity by Russell D. Moore
18.1—January/February, 2005
on Telling People Who They Really Are
14.1—January/February, 2001
Too Close for Comfort
on Liberal Christianity by Rod Dreher
14.1—January/February, 2001
The Feminization of the Church & the Need for Christian Fatherhood
15.6—July/August, 2002
Indigenous Chic
Christianity & the Cult of Indigenous People by Mark Tooley
15.8—October, 2002
Waging Peace
War, Christianity & the Divine Order by Louis R. Tarsitano
13.1—January/February, 2000
A Double Take on Early Christianity
An Interview with Rodney Stark
16.9—November, 2003
Episcopal Road to Nowhere
ECUSA’s “Gay” Bishop Is Not Christianity’s Future by Mark Tooley
17.3—April, 2004
When the World Sets the Agenda for the Church
16.6—July/August, 2003
The Cross & the Swastika
on Christianity & Anti-Semitism by Roberto Rivera
14.10—December, 2001
The Role & Character of the Family in Christianity
14.10—December, 2001
Passing on True Religion
on Islam, Christianity, and Moral Education by Louis R. Tarsitano
12.4—July/August, 1999
The Divide That Is There
on Egalitarian Christianity by S. M. Hutchens
12.1—January/February, 1999
Sons in the Son
God and Man in Early Christianity by Leon J. Podles
9.3—Summer, 1996
An Excerpt from The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity
8.3—Summer, 1995
All That Separates Must Converge
The Fragmentation of Christianity & the Unity of the Faith
7.2—Spring, 1994
6.3—Summer, 1993
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32.2—March/April 2019
on Properly Rendering Things to Caesar & to God by Peter J. Leithart
30.2—March/April 2017
on Reading Don Quixote in Its Original Christian Context by Luis Cortest
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