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Book Returns
Weapon of Misinstruction
by Allan Carlson
As It Is Written...
Water Rescue
by Patrick Henry Reardon

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

New Life Sentence
Charles W. Colson:
A Life Redeemed
by Jonathan Aitken
A review by Joan Frawley Desmond
Lost Shepherd
A Passionate Pilgrim:
A Biography of
Bishop James A. Pike
by David M. Robertson
A review by Ian Hunter
Union Laborer
That They May All Be One:
The Call To Unity Today
by Walter Kasper
A review by Adam A. J. Deville
The Eyes of Beholders
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
A review by Mark Bauerlein

Virtuous Science
by Wilfred M. McClay

The Martyr’s Cup
The Early Christians Give Us the Signs of the Christian Life:
Broken Bread & Lives Poured Out
by Mike Aquilina
The Return of the Suriani
A Visit to a Christian Minority in Turkey That Refuses to Die
by Joel Carillet
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

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

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