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editorials

Prodigal Cant

The Lord's Truth & the Casualty of Politics
by Anthony Esolen

communiqué

Lutheran Deformation

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Votes for Decline
by Brad Everett

columns

Contours of Culture

The Tyranny of Tolerance

A. J. Conyers's The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit

by Ken Myers

Illuminations

In the Bleak Midwinter

by Anthony Esolen

The Leading Edge

Freed Science

by Phillip E. Johnson

As It Is Written...

Sinners All

by Patrick Henry Reardon

24.6—Nov/Dec 2011

features

Ancient Crossroads

Intimations of Jesus Christ in the Greek Tragedies
by Louis Markos

Jesus & the Neo-Deists

Sweden’s New Civil Church Is Not an Icon of Christ but a Mirror of Man
by Folke T. Olofsson

Liberty, Conscience & Autonomy

How the Culture War of the Roaring Twenties Set the Stage for Today’s Catholic & Evangelical Alliance
by Barry Hankins

views

Food, Noise, Fire!

Rebecca Sicree on the Bethlehem Baboon & Other Christmas Traditions

Dead End Times

Patrick Henry Reardon on the Apocalyptic Fears of the Secularists

The Devil's Calendar

Scott Wilson on a Stealthy Theft of Christian Holy Days

Statutes of Liberty

Gillis J. Harp on the Tyranny of Modern Freedom versus the Freedom of Jesus

book reviews

Divine Morals

At the Roots of Christian Bioethics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
edited by Ana Smith Iltis and Mark J. Cherry
reviewed by Joseph Huneycutt

A Fine Awareness

Newman and His Contemporaries
by Edward Short
reviewed by Christopher White

A Measured Life

G. K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker
reviewed by James E. Person, Jr.

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