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Positively Christian

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Positively Christian

Principles for Living in the Negative World
by Aaron Renn

Rules for Fools

38:4 — july/august 2025

Rules for Fools

Patrick Henry Reardon on Proverbial Answers for Annoying Questions

Rightly Dividing the Word

38:4 — july/august 2025

Rightly Dividing the Word

Blake Adams on Lectionaries & the Reading of Scripture as Worship

The Gnostic Thread

38:4 — july/august 2025

Fundamentalism

A Cross We Must Now Take Up by S. M. Hutchens

A Guidepost in Our Current Misery

38:3 — may/june 2025

A Guidepost in Our Current Misery

Chateaubriand’s The Genius of Christianity by Alexander T. Riley

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America After Christianity

September 27, 2024

Neopaganism's Dark Enchantment

—John Daniel Davidson

September 28, 2024

The Urgency of Wonder

—Rod Dreher

September 26, 2024

Principles for Living in the Negative World

—Aaron Renn

from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)

32.3—May/June 2019

Theodicies & Messy Desks

on the Infinite Problem of Goods & Evil by Hugh Hunter

21.6—July/August 2008

The European Disunion

Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason by Samuel Gregg

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23.2—March/April 2010

Job’s Progress

on Maturity for a Rising Generation by Peter J. Leithart

32.2—March/April 2019

The Mimetic Bachelor

Reality Shows, Even in a Popular TV Series by C. E. Smith

31.6—November/December 2018

Virtue Gone Mad

Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley

current columns

Illuminations

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on Christian hymns

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The Forgotten Mode

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A Threefold Cord

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

A Sign of Contradiction

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From Heavenly Harmony

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Restless Beauty

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

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A Thousand Words

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First Books

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North/Central Europe—Fiction

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North-Central Europe

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Literacy Through Animal Stories

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Mortal Remains

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The Three Tests

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

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The Best of the Good

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As It Is Written . . .

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Second Thoughts on Saul

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Teaching on Purpose

14.8 — October 2001

The Ghost in My Machine

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Content with Truth

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Disaster Canada

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Choosing Truth or Power

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Moving Mountains

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Holy Things

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Turning Hearts to the Fathers Part I

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Civilization in the Balance

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35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Tale Told by an Idiot
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare edited by Jan H. Blits
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35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

Gnostic Anti-Sexuals
Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell
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35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Progressively Stoic
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35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

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