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“. . . I cannot myself imagine a more fearful fate for our species than that they should so habituate themselves to their earthly circumstances as to be finally contented with them, or a more sublime one than that they should continue till the end of time to peer into the distance after the land that is very far off. . . .”
Jesus Rediscovered (1969)
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9.1 — Winter 1996
On the Loss of Poetry as Necessary Knowledge by Steven Faulkner
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on the Suffering of Faith & the Paradox of Psalm 88 by Stephen Muse
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How Planned Parenthood's Founder Played the Christians, and Won by Allan C. Carlson
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The Death Rattle of a Tradition
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Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
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Errands into the Moral Wilderness
Forms of Christian Family Witness & Renewal by Allan C. Carlson
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32.4 — July/August, 2019
Novel Conversion
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
by Cynthia L. Haven
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32.2 — March/April, 2019
Shortfall
Deeper Magic: The Theology Behind the Writings of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
A review by S. M. Hutchens
32.3 — May/June, 2019
Shame & Redemption
The Crucifix on Mecca's Front Porch: A Christian's Companion for the Study of Islam
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32.2 — March/April, 2019
The Aura of Science
Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West, Volume II
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