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editorials

The New Heretics

Believers Are No Longer Credible as Public Citizens
by James Hitchcock

The Fog of Money

Bubbleheadedness & the General Law of Chickens
by S. M. Hutchens

columns

Illuminations

At the Cross of Jesus

by Anthony Esolen

A Thousand Words

Poussin's The Holy Family on the Steps

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

Contours of Culture

Mission Conversion

Foolishness to the Greeks by Lesslie Newbigin

by Ken Myers

As It Is Written...

The Gospel of Isaiah

by Patrick Henry Reardon

26.2—Mar/Apr 2013

features

Faith Against Faith

Whittaker Chambers, Potemkin Villages & the Ongoing War
by Anthony Esolen

All This in Remembrance

The History & Revelation of Anamnesis in Platonic, Jewish & Christian Thought
by Folke T. Olofsson

In War for Peace

General George C. Marshall's Core Convictions & Ethical Leadership
by David Hein

views

No Dead Man's Prayer

Stephen Muse on the Suffering of Faith & the Paradox of Psalm 88

Hard to Reach

S. M. Hutchens on Clarity, Mystery & Their Demands on Preachers & Hearers

The Yeast We Can Do

on Two Kinds of Leaven & Three Spiritual Disciplines

The Greatest Drama Ever

Gilbert Meilaender on Reading Dorothy Sayers's Play Cycle for Lent

Body of Evidence

Donald T. Williams on Liberal Klingons & the Hard Facts of Christian Faith

book reviews

Imperial Science

Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga
reviewed by Louis Markos

Not Lost for Words

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Farewell Fear by Theodore Dalrymple
reviewed by Matthew Walther

Diabolical Science

The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
reviewed by Matthew Dowling

The End Is Clear

Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction by Terence Nichols
reviewed by Graeme Hunter

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