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editorials

Virtuous Science

by Wilfred M. McClay

report

NCC Exit Poll

Why One Orthodox Church Left the National Council of Churches
by Johannes L. Jacobse

New Kid From the Bloc

Will Ukraine Help to Reorient Post-Christian Europe?
by Andrew Sorokowski

columns

Book Return

Weapon of Misinstruction

by Allan C. Carlson

As It Is Written...

Water Rescue

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Weapon of Misinstruction

Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb

by Allan C. Carlson

19.2—March 2006

features

The Martyr’s Cup

The Early Christians Give Us the Signs of the Christian Life: Broken Bread & Lives Poured Out
by Mike Aquilina

Terminal Logic

Everyone Is a Person—No One Is “Mere Biological Life”
by Robert P. George

Nature’s Book Shelved

Seeing Is Not Always Believing, But There Are Things the Unbeliever Should See
by Jonathan Witt

The Return of the Suriani

A Visit to a Christian Minority in Turkey That Refuses to Die
by Joel Carillet

views

Taking the Tube Underground

Anne Marie Waters on Removing the Television from the Family Hearth

No More Hims of Praise

Anthony Esolen on the Contemptible Mutilation of Hymns

Austen’s Powers

Jennifer Farrara on the Truths That Mr. Darcy Taught Me About Marital Love

Speed Trap

Robert Hart on Not Fixing Boys Who Aren’t Broken

book reviews

New Life Sentence

Charles W. Colson:
A Life Redeemed
by Jonathan Aitken
reviewed by Joan Frawley Desmond

Lost Shepherd

A Passionate Pilgrim: A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike
by David M. Robertson
reviewed by Ian Hunter

Separated At Birth

Home-Alone America:
The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
by Mary Eberstadt
reviewed by

Union Laborer

That They May All Be One:
The Call To Unity Today
by Walter Kasper
reviewed by Adam A. J. Deville

The Eyes of Beholders

On Beauty by Zadie Smith
reviewed by Mark Bauerlein

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