editorials

Subject to Change

Can Traditional Societies Survive the Power of Modernity?
by James Hitchcock

report

The Upper Reaches

The Remarkable 50-Year White House Ministry of Billy Graham
by Mark Tooley

columns

As It Is Written...

The Prophet & the Sage

by Patrick Henry Reardon

22.1—January/February 2009

features

Divorced from Reality

“We’re from the Government, and We’re Here to End Your Marriage.”
by Stephen Baskerville

Phony Matrimony

Or What King Kamehameha II Teaches Us About the Last Marriage Taboo
by Christopher Oleson

Meaningful Intercourse

The Rise & Fall of the Sexual Constitution of Christian Civilization
by Allan C. Carlson

views

A Certain Anger

S. M. Hutchens on Secularists Who Don’t Get Hell & Terrorists Who Do

Talking About Abortion

Susan Prudhomme on Facing the Pain & Joy of the Right Choice

Hymns Resurrected

Meredith Henne on Old Musical Wine & the New Wineskins

Sermon Pointers

T. David Gordon on Preaching as Spiritual Cartography

book reviews

Reserved Seating

A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America by John A. D'Elia
reviewed by William Varner

Sexes United

Marriage: The Dream That Refuses to Die by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
reviewed by Anne Hendershott

Sacred Exits

Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing and What to Do About It by Julia Duin
reviewed by Patrick Henry Reardon

Protection Thicket

Freedom of Religion: UN and European Human Rights Law and Practice by Paul M. Taylor
reviewed by William L. Saunders

departments

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