editorials

Caesar’s Limit

A State Under God Cannot Be Idolized
by Anthony Esolen

Between Caesar & Mohammed

Love of Enemies & Patriotic Duties
by S. M. Hutchens

report

Identity Papers

Orthodoxy’s Self-Definition & Its Constructions of the West
by Gary W. Jenkins

columns

The Leading Edge

Dogmatic Signs

by Phillip E. Johnson

As It Is Written...

Trial by Desert

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Contours of Culture

Speaking of Casual

John McWhorter's Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

by Ken Myers

23.6—November/December 2010

features

Darwin, Design & Thomas Aquinas

The Mythical Conflict Between Thomism & Intelligent Design
by Logan Paul Gage

Narnia Invaded

How the New Films Subvert Lewis’s Hierarchical World
by Steven D. Boyer

All Things New

Pagan Despair Ends with the Hope & Charity of God in Christ
by Anthony Esolen

Dead & Back Again

How Accounts of “Near-Death Experiences” Have Challenged My Faith
by Marilyn Prever

views

A Card for Aunt Hilda

Gary A. Fritz on Christmas Letters & Vanishing Connections

Nativity Players

Rebecca Sicree on the New Adventures of the Baby Jesus

The Sacred Feminine

Robert Hart on the Incarnation & the Ordained Ministry

Special Delivery

D. Andrew Jones on Why I Don’t Handwrite Notes & Letters

book reviews

Death Prep

The Art of Dying: Living Fully Into the Life To Come
by Rob Moll
reviewed by D. Andrew Jones

Not Well Reds

The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
by John V. Fleming
reviewed by Richard M. Reinsch II

Fixing Lewis

A Sword Between the Sexes? C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
reviewed by S. M. Hutchens

departments

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