articles by James A. Altena
32.5 — September/October 2019
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
32.1 — January/February 2019
Sex, Women's Ordination & the Rejection of Hierarchy & Equality
30.5 — Sept/Oct 2017
Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music by Robert R. Reilly with Jens F. Laurson
30.1 — Jan/Feb 2017
Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War by John C. Pinheiro
29.5 — Sept/Oct 2016
The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth About a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker by Daniel J. Mahoney
29.1 — Jan/Feb 2016
The 'Making of Men': The Idea and Reality of Newman's University in Oxford and Dublin by Paul Shrimpton
14.6 — July/August 2001
The Bible, Protestantism,
and the Rise of Natural Science
by Peter Harrison
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