articles by David Mills

37.1 — Jan/Feb 2024

My Father’s Example

on Appreciating Paternal Influence in the Right Direction


28.2 — March/April 2015

Facing God

on Divine Worship & the Natural Limits of Community


27.4 — July/August 2014

Through Others' Eyes

on the Limited Virtues of Reading


23.2 — March/April 2010

Soulmates & Deficits

The State of Our Unions Report Looks at Marital Economics


22.6 — July/August 2009

Bad Books for Kids

A Guide to the World of Youth Literature & What You Can Do About It


21.3 — April 2008

That All May Be Saved

Why We Still Must Pray for the Jews


21.2 — March 2008

From Meddling to Preaching

Three Ways to Expose the Partly Natural Family


21.1 — January/February 2008

License to Kill

The Persistence of Abortion & the Responsibilities of Christians


20.10 — December 2007

Leftovers

Christianity for the Rest of Us:
How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
by Diana Butler Bass


20.9 — November 2007

The Mass Upended

and David Mills on Restoring Primitive Jocularity to the Liturgy


20.8 — October 2007

Mad About Unity

The Unique Fellowship of the Clearly Divided


20.7 — September 2007

Fade to Gray

We Cannot Speak of Evil When We Refuse to Speak of Good


20.6 — July/August 2007

Preaching Without Reaching

The Irrelevance of Relevant Preaching


20.4 — May 2007

All God’s Children


20.3 — April 2007

Dwelling in Tentatives


20.2 — March 2007

Choosing Sides


19.10 — December 2006

Enchanting Children

Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination


19.7 — September 2006

Puff the Maverick Dragons

on Religious News That’s Not


19.7 — September 2006

Without Conscience


19.5 — June 2006

The Creed We Need

On the Picture of God We Draw with Words


19.4 — May 2006

State of Separation


18.10 — December 2005

Unadulterated Words

Justly Praising the Great
& the Mediocre


18.9 — November 2005

Fantasy Islands

on Margaret Mead’s False Paradise


18.8 — October 2005

An Uncertain Certainty

How Screwtape Leads the Postmodern Man to Hell


18.5 — June 2005

Paper Tiber

How Pope John Paul’s Critics Would Tame the Church of Rome


18.5 — June 2005

Papal Bullseye


18.1 — January/February 2005

Onan’s Onus

A sidebar in W. Bradford Wilcox’s “The Facts of Life & Marriage”


17.8 — October 2004

Unimposing Kerry


17.7 — September 2004

Reorganizing Religion

Why the Church Bureaucracies Have to Go


17.6 — July/August 2004

Science & Wisdom

A Sidebar in Edward Sisson's "Darwin or Lose"


17.6 — July/August 2004

Reading the Stars

on a Father Who Makes a Cosmos for His Children


17.6 — July/August 2004

Knockoff Religion


17.4 — May 2004

Supreme Modernism

A sidebar in James Hitchcock’s “Superemely Modern Liberals”


17.2 — March 2004

The Dust of Adam

on the Rite of Ash Wednesday


17.2 — March 2004

Hanging On


17.1 — January/February 2004

Great Escapes & Lesser Stories

The Alternative Worlds of C. S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley & George Orwell


17.1 — January/February 2004

Anglican Pravda

on Mainline Propaganda


17.1 — January/February 2004

The Very Idea of Abortion


16.10 — December 2003

Years the Locusts Have Eaten

Malcolm Muggeridge’s Chronicles of Wasted Time as an Apology of Love


16.10 — December 2003

Ecumenical Exclusion


16.7 — September 2003

Abusing a Voice of Reason


16.6 — July/August 2003

Standing with Christ

A Response to R. Albert Mohler, Jr.


16.5 — June 2003

American Reservists


16.3 — April 2003

When Jesus Says the Wrong Thing

on Qualifying Christian Language


16.3 — April 2003

Voting for Pontius Pilate


16.2 — March 2003

Speaking of Enemies

on Good Men & Bad Opinions


16.1 — January/February 2003

Choosing Love & Making Life

Sex, Love, Marriage & the Culture of Death


16.1 — January/February 2003

Nice Killers

on Respect for Abortionists


15.10 — December 2002

The Bible as Metaphor

on Nuancing the Scriptures for Modern Man


15.9 — November 2002

The Snob’s Dogma

on Modernizing the Gospels


15.9 — November 2002

The Gentle Lamb Jesus


15.8 — October 2002

St. Paul the Eccentric

on Those Who Would Separate Jesus from St. Paul


15.3 — April 2002

Absent Allies

on Conservative Avoidance


15.2 — March 2002

Necessary Doctrine

Why Dogma Is Needed & Why Substitutes Fail


15.1 — January/February 2002

Reading Tolkien

Tolkien: A Celebration
edited by Joseph Pearce


15.1 — January/February 2002

The Writer of Our Story

Divine Providence in The Lord of the Rings


14.8 — October 2001

Getting Jesus Right

How Heresy Seduces the Sincere


14.4 — May 2001

Barbies & Babies

on Abortion in the Real World


14.4 — May 2001

The Meaning of Conservative


14.2 — March 2001

Cultural Borderlines


13.9 — November 2000

Defending the Indefensible

on the Language of Abortion


13.8 — October 2000

Close Your Mind

Critical Christians in an Uncritical Age


13.3 — April 2000

A Journal for Men & Women


13.2 — March 2000

The Flatlanders’ Creed

on Putting God in His Box


13.1 — January/February 2000

The Self-Destruction of the NCC


12.6 — November/December 1999

Imaginative Orthodoxy

The Art of Telling the Christian Story


12.5 — September/October 1999

Writing What Your Readers Will Hear

C. S. Lewis, Analogy & the Lay Mind


12.1 — January/February 1999

The Sword & the Scalpel


11.5 — September/October 1998

The Word & the Words


11.4 — July/August 1998

To See Truly Through a Glass Darkly

C. S. Lewis, George Orwell, & the Corruption of Language


11.4 — July/August 1998

Rationality & Revelation: C. S. Lewis & Lambeth


11.1 — January/February 1998

Positively Not


10.4 — Fall 1997

The Bible Tells Me So

On Knowing & Obeying the Biblical Pattern for Life & Godliness


9.4 — Fall 1996

LatCons Revisited

Further Thoughts on Latitudinarian Conservatism


9.4 — Fall 1996

Taking the Creed Personally


9.1 — Winter 1996

Meet the Latcons

The Long and the Short of Latitudinarian Conservatives


8.3 — Summer 1995

A Hope of Collapsing Churches

The Present Malaise & Future Hope of the Mainline Churches


8.2 — Spring 1995

The Light We Have


7.3 — Summer 1994

The Gospel & Our Culture

Two Views


7.2 — Spring 1994

The Devil Is a Good Sociologist


5.3 — Summer 1992

The Bible Tells Me So

Everything You Need to Know About Morality & the Bible


4.1 — Summer 1990

Evading the Creed

The Various Attacks on the Faith of the Church & Why They Fail



more from the online archives

32.1—January/February 2019

Schools of Impiety

The Diabolical Failure of Leaders in the Present Crises by James M. Kushiner

16.10—December 2003

Calculating Christmas

on the Story Behind December 25 by William J. Tighe

27.3—May/June 2014

Sex & the American Experience

Facts versus Stereotypes About Love & Marriage in the Land of the Free by Allan C. Carlson

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