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Seth D. Mitchell on Foolish Faith in Technological Salvation
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Christian Freedom in the Contest with Secularism by Douglas Farrow
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Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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The Leading Edge
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(2001–2013)
14.4 — May 2001
23.6 — November/December 2010
17.6 — July/August 2004
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
24.3 — May/June 2011
Gilbert Meilaender's The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis
22.6 — July/August 2009
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The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.3 — April 2002
18.1 — January/February 2005
16.1 — January/February 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
14.5 — June 2001
11.4 — July/August 1998
16.2 — March 2003
book reviews
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Butler’s Lies
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
A review by Alexander T. Riley
38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025
Closing Argument
What Is Christianity? The Last Writings of Benedict XVI
A review by John R. Stephenson
38.5 — Sept/Oct, 2025
The Scope of the Pope
Infallibility, Integrity and Obedience: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848–2023 by John M. Rist
A review by William J. Tighe
38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025
Our One Faith
Light from Light: A Theological Reflection on the Nicene Creed by Robert Barron
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