editorials

American Idolatry

Meditations on Same-Sex Marriage
by Allan C. Carlson

Good News or Dead End?

Genuine Seekers & Holy Irrelevance
by S. M. Hutchens

columns

Illuminations

The Lord of The Harvest

by Anthony Esolen

A Thousand Words

Raffaello Sanzio's The Sistine Madonna

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

As It Is Written...

Peter, Apostle

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Mortal Remains

What the Bishop Didn't Say

by S. M. Hutchens

Contours of Culture

Communicable Dis-ease

Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It

by Ken Myers

The Leading Edge

Darwin's Doubt Still Mine

by Phillip E. Johnson

26.5—Sept/Oct 2013

features

More than Schooling

The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts
by Robin Phillips

The Rest of Creation

Reflections on the Sabbath in Time & Eternity
by Stanley E. Anderson

The Augustinian Luther

A Pilgrimage in Search of the Reformer's Spiritual Director
by William R. Hampton

views

Lest Ye Forget The Covenant

Mark R. Elliott asks, What Happened to the Ten Commandments?

Hagia Sophia

Donald T. Williams on the Holy Wisdom at the Roots of Philosophy

Christian Schools & Racial Realities

Hunter Baker on Desegregation & the Rise of Christian Education in the South

book reviews

God Save the Queen

A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians by Timothy Larson
reviewed by Louis Markos

Readable & Repeatable

The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton Vol. 36: The Illustrated London News, 1932–1934
reviewed by John C. Chalberg

Rediscovering Our Roots

The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI: The Christocentric Shift by Emery de Gaál
reviewed by Thomas A. Baima

departments

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