editorials

Citizen, Heal Thyself

Social Sins Are Easily & Fashionably Confessed
by James Hitchcock

communiqué

My Life with Darwin

A Report on Evolution from the Laboratory Bench
by Martha Hutchens

interview

Remains of the Swedes

An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden
by William J. Tighe

columns

The Leading Edge

Content with Truth

by Phillip E. Johnson

Contours of Culture

Emotion Sickness

Todd Gitlin's Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives

by Ken Myers

As It Is Written...

Born One of Us

by Patrick Henry Reardon

22.8—November/December 2009

features

That Corinthian Problem

The Long Reach of an Infamous First-Century Church
by Robert Hart

Mormon Vampires in the Garden of Eden

What the Bestselling Twilight Series Has in Store for Young Readers
by John Granger

The Origin of Aesthetics

Looking for Beauty & Justice 150 Years After Darwin’s Classic
by Charles Taliaferro

views

Souls Bound & Unbound

Peter J. Leithart on the Surprising Madness of the Gospel

Charles Darwin, M.D.

Patrick C. Beeman on the Healing Arts as an Accessory to Evolution

Novel Ideas

Barton Swaim on the Fictional Value of “Things That Never Existed”

Looking for Wenceslaus

Michael Baum on the Real Men Behind the Christmas Carol

book reviews

Pious, Profane & Perplexed

The Plain Man’s Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England
by Christopher Haigh
reviewed by William J. Tighe

A Better Selection

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory Of Intelligent Evolution
by Michael Flannery
reviewed by Denyse O'Leary

Looking for Logic

Writing That Makes Sense: Critical Thinking in College Composition
by David S. Hogsette
reviewed by Beth Impson

Three For All

Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien On the Human Condition
by Donald T. Williams
reviewed by Michael Bauman

departments

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