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editorials

A Necessary Anniversary

The Contemporary & the Timeless Intersect for 30 Years
by James M. Kushiner

Infidelity and Fidelity

Keep Calm, Carry On, Even If It Is "Satan's Hour"
by James M. Kushiner

columns

From Heavenly Harmony

Bend Down Thy Gracious Ear

by Ken Myers

As It Is Written...

Those Midwives

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Mortal Remains

The Symphony of Comprehension

by S. M. Hutchens

First Books

Four Final States

by Kathie Johnson

A Thousand Words

El Greco's St. Joseph and the Child Jesus

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

30.1—Jan/Feb 2017

features

On Mrs. Jongke's Porch

The Basis of the Fellowship in Real Time
by S. M. Hutchens

Up on the Farm

Where Young Christian Families Are Finding New Roots
by Kathleen Curran Sweeney

The Heart of Paradise

The Godly Hierarchies of Love & Marriage
by Diane Woerner

The Virtue of Marriage

Truly Authentic Sex & Rightly Ordered Love
by Tracy Jamison

Periodical Crossings

The Intersections of Christ, Creed & Culture
by Patrick Henry Reardon

Family Matters

Domestic Altars & Godly Offspring
by Allan C. Carlson

views

The World in a Grain of Sand

Bret J. Saunders on the Importance of Poetry in Christian Education & Life

Speaking of Jesus

Nikolas Grosfield on a Pastor's Evangelical Ministry to Muslims

A New Pope for Gideon

Kevin Raedy on Captain Kirk, Contraception & Christian Tradition

book reviews

Manifest Bigotry

Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War by John C. Pinheiro
reviewed by James A. Altena

Pilgrim's Finale?

The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible by A. N. Wilson
reviewed by Timothy Larsen

But Is He Sure?

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
reviewed by Graeme Hunter

departments

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