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editorials

On the Far Side of the Family

The Love That Transcends the Killjoy Child
by S. M. Hutchens

forum

Living Underground

A Symposium on Christian Burial
by Russell D. Moore

columns

As It Is Written...

Merciful Propositions

by Patrick Henry Reardon

21.7—September 2008

features

Devil Talk

Milton’s Postmodern Satan & His Disciples
by Donald T. Williams

views

Hidden Gender

S. M. Hutchens on the Universal Grammar Feminists Can’t Speak

The Restless Evangelicals

Caleb Stegall on Finding the Common Good in an Augustinian Republic

No Plain Jane

Eleanor Bourg Donlon on Hollywood’s Disgrace & Jane Austen’s Wisdom

Minor Keys to the Kingdom

Christopher Jackson on Downbeat Songs for the Downtrodden

book reviews

Church Eternal

Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshipping Community
by Simon Chan
reviewed by L. P. Fairfield

Restoring a Reformer

Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ
by J. Todd Billings
Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin
by Randall C. Zachma
reviewed by Peter J. Leithart

The Spirit Factor

Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement
by Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori
reviewed by Lance Nixon

Today's Menu

In Defense of Food
by Michael Pollan
reviewed by John Schwenkler

The Market’s Place

God and Money: The Moral Challenge of Our Capitalist Culture
by Charles McDaniel
reviewed by Gillis J. Harp

Miss Americans

The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women’s Values
by Katherine Adam and Charles Derber
reviewed by Erika Bachiochi

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