editorials
by James M. Kushiner
columns
The Leading Edge
by Phillip E. Johnson
As It Is Written...
by Patrick Henry Reardon
features
A Short & Surprising History of Protestantism & Contraception
by Allan C. Carlson
What Some Rude Questions About Adoption Taught Me About the Gospel of
Christ
by Russell D. Moore
views
Gilbert Meilaender on Losing Him in Translation
John Parker on the Dishonesty of Inclusive Prayers
Jim Forest on the Spiritual Journeys of the Sick & the Dying
Annegret Hunter on Taking the Body Too Seriously
book reviews
Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage
by Allan Carlson
reviewed by Robert W. Patterson
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian Buruma
reviewed by Joan Frawley Desmond
Through Their Own Eyes: Liturgy as the Byzantines Saw It
by Robert F. Taft, S.J.
reviewed by Mike Aquilina
The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear, Agitator for the Spirit Land
by John Benedict Buescher
reviewed by Anne Barbeau Gardiner
The Religious Foundation of Francis Bacon's Thought
by Stephen A. McKnight
reviewed by Peter J. Leithart
departments
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