articles by James A. Altena

36.1 — Jan/Feb 2023

Contraceptive Cons

A History of the Protestant Debate over Contraception


32.5 — September/October 2019

A Dual Estrangement

Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


32.1 — January/February 2019

Role Reversals

Sex, Women's Ordination & the Rejection of Hierarchy & Equality


31.5 — September/October 2018

Affective Devotion

on Church Music as Facilitating Worship


30.5 — Sept/Oct 2017

Composers & Their Measure

Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music by Robert R. Reilly with Jens F. Laurson


30.1 — Jan/Feb 2017

Manifest Bigotry

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


29.5 — Sept/Oct 2016

The Shaggy Titan

The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth About a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker by Daniel J. Mahoney


29.1 — Jan/Feb 2016

Campus Recall

The 'Making of Men': The Idea and Reality of Newman's University in Oxford and Dublin by Paul Shrimpton


21.9 — November 2008

Mortal Enemy

on Looking Death in the Face of a Friend


14.6 — July/August 2001

Secular Hermeneutics

The Bible, Protestantism,
and the Rise of Natural Science
by Peter Harrison


short pieces by James A. Altena

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