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editorials

Same Country, Different Worlds

The Events of Christ's Life Remind Us That We Have a New Race to Run
by Anthony Esolen

columns

Illuminations

A Musical Work of Mercy

by Anthony Esolen

Contours of Culture

Recognition of Disconnection

What Are People For by Wendell Berry

by Ken Myers

As It Is Written...

The Reader of Hearts

by Patrick Henry Reardon

A Thousand Words

Andrei Rublev's The Trinity

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

First Books

Reliable Authors of Picture Books

by Kathie Johnson

26.1—Jan/Feb 2013

features

An Engaging Proposal

Lessons on Courtship & Covenantal Marriage from Ancient Israel
by Ryan Messmore

Scarborough Needs Men

Manly Chastity, Hedonism & the Law of Non-contradiction
by Anthony Esolen

Lost & Found in the Cosmos

The Alternate & Alternative Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft & C. S. Lewis
by C. R. Wiley

views

Nursery Crimes

Burnell F. Eckardt, Jr on the Move from Abortion to Infanticide

Going Home

Brian Crocker on Hometown Reunions & the End of All Our Foes

Sexual Iconoclasm

Russell D. Moore on Christian Honesty About the Harm of Fornication

The Destroyer of Peace

W. Ross Blackburn on Abortion as a Matter of National Welfare

Interlocking Hearts

S. M. Hutchens on the Consequential Metaphysics of Sexual Union

book reviews

Heart Work

Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers & Skeptics Find Faith
by Alister E. McGrath
reviewed by Louis Markos

The Oslo Syndrome

Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World
by Jay Nordlinger
reviewed by Bradley W. Anderson

Matter & Humanity

The Mind and the Machine: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters
by Matthew Dickerson
reviewed by J. Daryl Charles

Shared Treasure

Luke
by David Lyle Jeffrey
reviewed by Graeme Hunter

departments

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