editorials

State of Separation

by David Mills

report

Bottom of the Ninth Assembly

The Recent World Council of Churches Assembly & the End of the Ecumenical Movement
by George Conger

columns

Book Return

Tuning Out the OK Chorale

by Susan Prudhomme

As It Is Written...

The Sacred Name

by Patrick Henry Reardon

19.4—May 2006

features

Divine Light from Kings

Evangelical Ecumenism & the Gospel in the Story of Israel Divided
by Peter J. Leithart

Liberalism as Religion

The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides
by Howard P. Kainz

Not Harvard Bound

Some of America’s Most Promising Youth Are Seeking an Even Higher Education
by Terrence O. Moore

views

Caedmon’s Edge

Anthony Esolen on the Fair Advantage of a Medieval Bible Translator

The Relatively Good Book

B. J. Hutto on the Liberal Protestant Bible Translation

Poor Excuse

Frederica Mathewes-Green on Remembering That Even the Poor Can Go to Hell

Birth Patrol

Paul J. Cella III on the Fears of Those Who Worship the Means but Hate the Ends

book reviews

The Symphonic Bible

Sanctified Vision:
An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible
by John J. O'Keefe and R. R. Reno
reviewed by Ryan J. Jack McDermott

The Public Bible

The Bible and Its Influence
Cullen Schippe and Chuck Stetson,
general editors
reviewed by C. T. Maier

Pure King James

The New Cambridge
Paragraph Bible
edited by David Norton
reviewed by Robert Hart

Flighty Plan

Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith
by Anne Lamott
reviewed by Franklin Freeman

Pale Male

Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield
reviewed by Gerald J. Russello

Peace Pipe Dream

The Right To Be Wrong:
Ending the Culture War over Religion in America
by Kevin Seamus Hasson
reviewed by Amanda Witt

departments

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