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The Leading Edge
Permutations of Evolution
by Phillip E. Johnson
Abort, Retry, or Ignore?
by Hadley Arkes
Post Conversion
by Mark Tooley
As It Is Written...
The Worldling
by Patrick Henry Reardon

God’s Fences
A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and
State
A review by Robert W. Patterson
History Unhinged
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art
from the Cults of Catholic Europe
A review by Robert C. Cheeks
Faith Underground
The Christian Catacombs of Rome: History, Decoration, Inscriptions
by Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai, Fabrizio Bisconti,
A review by Mike Aquilina
A Two-Legged Stool
Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate
by Ronald Dworkin
A review by David L. Tubbs
Toxic Waste
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
A review by Richard Kirk

Helpers Meet?
A Symposium on Dating, Courtship & Marriage
With contributions by
James Hitchcock,
S. M. Hutchens,
Jocelyn Mathewes
& Kevin Offner

Mad About Unity
by David Mills

The Pearl of Great Wisdom
The Deep & Abiding Biblical Roots of Western Liberal Education
by David Lyle Jeffrey

Quite Beyond Us
Patrick Henry Reardon on the Unfathomable Self-Consciousness
of Jesus
A Time to Move On
Anthony Esolen on Sending Our Children into Eternity
(A Graduation Address)
Aliens in Zion
Louis Markos on Why I Can’t Be Just Another Earthman
At Home in Zion
Steven K. Gjerde on the Gift of Living in a Parsonage

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