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Positively Christian

38:4 — july/august 2025

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)

32.6—November/December 2019

God Fearers

An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton by James Bryson

29.5—Sept/Oct 2016

The True Atheist Myth

on Past & Present Atheism & the Invention of Happiness by Jordan Bissell

from the archives on culture (289 articles)

23.2—March/April 2010

Job’s Progress

on Maturity for a Rising Generation by Peter J. Leithart

32.5—September/October 2019

Must Say No

on When Christians Can't Compromise by Joshua Steely

33.4—July/August 2020

No Option

Clear Out the Rubble & Rebuild! by Anthony Esolen

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

A Sign of Contradiction

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From Heavenly Harmony

by Ken Myers

on classical music

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Restless Beauty

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

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A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

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First Books

by Kathie Johnson

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38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Three Tests

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

The Best of the Good

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

Second Thoughts on Saul

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All Their Cosmos

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

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Book Returns

by various authors

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The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

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(2001–2013)

17.2 — March 2004

The Galileo Syndrome

19.7 — September 2006

Getting Over Dover

15.6 — July/August 2002

Right Sacrifice

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Contours of Culture

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on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)

23.5 — September/October 2010

The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis

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The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

17.7 — September 2004

Literary Revelation

15.3 — April 2002

The Ring of Terror

18.1 — January/February 2005

Empty Spaces of the Word

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

13.2 — March 2000

Raising the Bar

14.7 — September 2001

The Cardinal Virtue of Prudence

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Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

3.3 — Fall 1989

Hope in Haiti?

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37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

A Faithful Knowledge

A Conversation with Stephen C. Meyer

15.5 — June 2002

Berkeley’s Radical

An Interview with Phillip E. Johnson

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book reviews

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
A review by Max Longley

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Revelatory Science
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
A review by Neil English

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
A review by Thomas Banks

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Biblical Skepticism
The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture by Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker
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