editorials

L'affaire Esolen

We Stand in Solidarity & in Good Company
by James M. Kushiner

Housekeeping

Beware Scandalizing Unbelievers
by Patrick Henry Reardon

columns

Mortal Remains

Christology & Bible Translation

by S. M. Hutchens

From Heavenly Harmony

Artful Repentance

by Ken Myers

A Thousand Words

The Transfiguration by Theophanes the Greek

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

As It Is Written...

Pharaoh's Darkness

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Illuminations

The Light of the Cross

by Anthony Esolen

30.2—March/April 2017

features

The Fullness of Mercy

Western Literature & the Illumination of a Divine Attribute
by Christine Schintgen

Men-at-Arm's Length

Soldiers of Christ & the Mixed Messages They Receive
by Leon J. Podles

Keep Them from Idols

The Education of Children Takes Generations of Fidelity
by W. Ross Blackburn

The Cross of Least Resistance

Our Path to Holiness Runs Straight Through Calvary
by Robin Phillips

views

Rescuing Cervantes

Luis Cortest on Reading Don Quixote in Its Original Christian Context

War & Peace After Jesus

Andrew Latham on Pacifism Today & in the Early Church

The Look of Acts

Robert Hart What the Church Steadfastly Does Every Sunday

book reviews

Sound Bites

Philosophy in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic by Douglas Groothuis
reviewed by Donald T. Williams

Benedictus Dominus

Last Testament: In His Own Words by Pope Benedict XVI and Peter Seewald
reviewed by Ian Hunter

The Persistence of Mummery

Without Precedent: Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women by Geoffrey Kirk
reviewed by S. M. Hutchens

As It Was in the Beginning

Unchanging Witness: The Consistent Christian Teaching on Homosexuality in Scripture and Tradition by S. Donald Fortson III and Rollin G. Grams
reviewed by Michael Philliber

departments

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