articles by David Mills

37.1 — Jan/Feb 2024

My Father’s Example

on Appreciating Paternal Influence in the Right Direction


28.2 — March/April 2015

Facing God

on Divine Worship & the Natural Limits of Community


27.4 — July/August 2014

Through Others' Eyes

on the Limited Virtues of Reading


23.2 — March/April 2010

Soulmates & Deficits

The State of Our Unions Report Looks at Marital Economics


22.6 — July/August 2009

Bad Books for Kids

A Guide to the World of Youth Literature & What You Can Do About It


21.3 — April 2008

That All May Be Saved

Why We Still Must Pray for the Jews


21.2 — March 2008

From Meddling to Preaching

Three Ways to Expose the Partly Natural Family


21.1 — January/February 2008

License to Kill

The Persistence of Abortion & the Responsibilities of Christians


20.10 — December 2007

Leftovers

Christianity for the Rest of Us:
How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
by Diana Butler Bass


20.9 — November 2007

The Mass Upended

and David Mills on Restoring Primitive Jocularity to the Liturgy


20.8 — October 2007

Mad About Unity

The Unique Fellowship of the Clearly Divided


20.7 — September 2007

Fade to Gray

We Cannot Speak of Evil When We Refuse to Speak of Good


20.6 — July/August 2007

Preaching Without Reaching

The Irrelevance of Relevant Preaching


20.4 — May 2007

All God’s Children


20.3 — April 2007

Dwelling in Tentatives


20.2 — March 2007

Choosing Sides


19.10 — December 2006

Enchanting Children

Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination


19.7 — September 2006

Puff the Maverick Dragons

on Religious News That’s Not


19.7 — September 2006

Without Conscience


19.5 — June 2006

The Creed We Need

On the Picture of God We Draw with Words


19.4 — May 2006

State of Separation


18.10 — December 2005

Unadulterated Words

Justly Praising the Great
& the Mediocre


18.9 — November 2005

Fantasy Islands

on Margaret Mead’s False Paradise


18.8 — October 2005

An Uncertain Certainty

How Screwtape Leads the Postmodern Man to Hell


18.5 — June 2005

Paper Tiber

How Pope John Paul’s Critics Would Tame the Church of Rome


18.5 — June 2005

Papal Bullseye


18.1 — January/February 2005

Onan’s Onus

A sidebar in W. Bradford Wilcox’s “The Facts of Life & Marriage”


17.8 — October 2004

Unimposing Kerry


17.7 — September 2004

Reorganizing Religion

Why the Church Bureaucracies Have to Go


17.6 — July/August 2004

Science & Wisdom

A Sidebar in Edward Sisson's "Darwin or Lose"


17.6 — July/August 2004

Reading the Stars

on a Father Who Makes a Cosmos for His Children


17.6 — July/August 2004

Knockoff Religion


17.4 — May 2004

Supreme Modernism

A sidebar in James Hitchcock’s “Superemely Modern Liberals”


17.2 — March 2004

The Dust of Adam

on the Rite of Ash Wednesday


17.2 — March 2004

Hanging On


17.1 — January/February 2004

Great Escapes & Lesser Stories

The Alternative Worlds of C. S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley & George Orwell


17.1 — January/February 2004

Anglican Pravda

on Mainline Propaganda


17.1 — January/February 2004

The Very Idea of Abortion


16.10 — December 2003

Years the Locusts Have Eaten

Malcolm Muggeridge’s Chronicles of Wasted Time as an Apology of Love


16.10 — December 2003

Ecumenical Exclusion


16.7 — September 2003

Abusing a Voice of Reason


16.6 — July/August 2003

Standing with Christ

A Response to R. Albert Mohler, Jr.


16.5 — June 2003

American Reservists


16.3 — April 2003

When Jesus Says the Wrong Thing

on Qualifying Christian Language


16.3 — April 2003

Voting for Pontius Pilate


16.2 — March 2003

Speaking of Enemies

on Good Men & Bad Opinions


16.1 — January/February 2003

Choosing Love & Making Life

Sex, Love, Marriage & the Culture of Death


16.1 — January/February 2003

Nice Killers

on Respect for Abortionists


15.10 — December 2002

The Bible as Metaphor

on Nuancing the Scriptures for Modern Man


15.9 — November 2002

The Snob’s Dogma

on Modernizing the Gospels


15.9 — November 2002

The Gentle Lamb Jesus


15.8 — October 2002

St. Paul the Eccentric

on Those Who Would Separate Jesus from St. Paul


15.3 — April 2002

Absent Allies

on Conservative Avoidance


15.2 — March 2002

Necessary Doctrine

Why Dogma Is Needed & Why Substitutes Fail


15.1 — January/February 2002

Reading Tolkien

Tolkien: A Celebration
edited by Joseph Pearce


15.1 — January/February 2002

The Writer of Our Story

Divine Providence in The Lord of the Rings


14.8 — October 2001

Getting Jesus Right

How Heresy Seduces the Sincere


14.4 — May 2001

Barbies & Babies

on Abortion in the Real World


14.4 — May 2001

The Meaning of Conservative


14.2 — March 2001

Cultural Borderlines


13.9 — November 2000

Defending the Indefensible

on the Language of Abortion


13.8 — October 2000

Close Your Mind

Critical Christians in an Uncritical Age


13.3 — April 2000

A Journal for Men & Women


13.2 — March 2000

The Flatlanders’ Creed

on Putting God in His Box


13.1 — January/February 2000

The Self-Destruction of the NCC


12.6 — November/December 1999

Imaginative Orthodoxy

The Art of Telling the Christian Story


12.5 — September/October 1999

Writing What Your Readers Will Hear

C. S. Lewis, Analogy & the Lay Mind


12.1 — January/February 1999

The Sword & the Scalpel


11.5 — September/October 1998

The Word & the Words


11.4 — July/August 1998

To See Truly Through a Glass Darkly

C. S. Lewis, George Orwell, & the Corruption of Language


11.4 — July/August 1998

Rationality & Revelation: C. S. Lewis & Lambeth


11.1 — January/February 1998

Positively Not


10.4 — Fall 1997

The Bible Tells Me So

On Knowing & Obeying the Biblical Pattern for Life & Godliness


9.4 — Fall 1996

LatCons Revisited

Further Thoughts on Latitudinarian Conservatism


9.4 — Fall 1996

Taking the Creed Personally


9.1 — Winter 1996

Meet the Latcons

The Long and the Short of Latitudinarian Conservatives


8.3 — Summer 1995

A Hope of Collapsing Churches

The Present Malaise & Future Hope of the Mainline Churches


8.2 — Spring 1995

The Light We Have


7.3 — Summer 1994

The Gospel & Our Culture

Two Views


7.2 — Spring 1994

The Devil Is a Good Sociologist


5.3 — Summer 1992

The Bible Tells Me So

Everything You Need to Know About Morality & the Bible


4.1 — Summer 1990

Evading the Creed

The Various Attacks on the Faith of the Church & Why They Fail


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