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Christianity & the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence
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The Anti-Christian Rush Toward Disembodiment
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The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
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Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East by Carrie Frederick Frost
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It’s Bent on Bringing Down the House on the Family & the Church by Douglas Farrow
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
18.8 — October 2005
The Leading Edge
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(2001–2013)
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.3 — May/June 2013
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor
22.6 — July/August 2009
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Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson
The Matter at Hand
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pondering the Christian life
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A Pastor & a Poet
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms by Malcolm Guite
A review by Thomas Banks
35.1 — January/February, 2022
Crucial Witness
Glory Wrapped in Shame: An Exegetical Study of the Passion Narrative
in the Gospel of St. John, Highlighting Its Historical and Theological Insights by Abraham Oommen
A review by John G. Panagiotou
35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022
Capturing Audiences
C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication by Steven Beebe
A review by Arthur W. Hunt III
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