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Christianity & the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence
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Patrick Henry Reardon on Godly Lessons from Biblical Failures
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The Anti-Christian Rush Toward Disembodiment
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Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life' by Stratford Caldecott
18.4—May 2005
The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
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36.1—Jan/Feb 2023
A History of the Protestant Debate over Contraception by James A. Altena
31.1—January/February 2018
The Wisdom of the Victorian Quest for Innocence by David Sandifer
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Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East by Carrie Frederick Frost
Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy by Laura S. Jansson by Agnes R. Howard
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Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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The Leading Edge
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26.5 — Sept/Oct 2013
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.1 — Jan/Feb 2013
22.7 — September/October 2009
26.3 — May/June 2013
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
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15.9 — November 2002
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
12.3 — May/June 1999
6.3 — Summer 1993
17.3 — April 2004
Interviews
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35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
A review by Thomas Banks
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Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
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35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
Unreal Liberals
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35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
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