editorials

As God Gives Growth

When Organizations Become Empty Wombs & Dry Earth
by S. M. Hutchens

columns

As It Is Written...

The Choirmaster

by Patrick Henry Reardon

21.5—June 2008

features

The Shadow of Nestorius

An Alienated but Enduring Church After the Third Ecumenical Council
by William J. Tighe

The Skeptical Inquirer

If Only Atheists Were the Skeptics They Think They Are
by Edward Tingley

views

The Final Past Time

Anthony Esolen on What Baseball Could Have Taught the Greeks About Death

Screwtaped Saviors

S. M. Hutchens on the Endless Succession of Historical Jesuses

Unmarried, Still Children

Joan Frawley Desmond on Children Who’ve Been Raised for Everything but Marriage

Mosque in Hiding

John C. Chalberg on Making Room for Prayer Rugs on a Secular Campus

book reviews

Simply Asking

Question to All Your Answers:
A Journey From Folk Religion to Examined Faith by Roger E. Olson
reviewed by Louis Markos

Fetal Positions

Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice
by Francis J. Beckwith
reviewed by Anne Hendershott

Egyptian Spoils

The Treasures of Coptic Art: In the Coptic Museum and Churches of Old Cairo
by Gawdat Gabra and Marianne Eaton-Krauss
reviewed by Mike Aquilina

Filtered Fringe

Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement
by Lauren Sandler
reviewed by Ryan T. Anderson

Damaged Heir

Crazy for God by Frank Schaeffer
reviewed by Jason R. Edwards

departments

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