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editorials

Northwoods Ecumenism

A Surprising Little Angle on Unity
by Allan C. Carlson

Making a Statement

The Manhattan Declaration Is Even More Timely
by Robert P. George

The Suffering Church

Mere Christianity Is Fundamentally Cruciform
by James M. Kushiner

We, the Enemy

The Liberal State & the Decline of Pluralism
by James Hitchcock

report

Ecumenical Orthodoxy

Touchstone’s 25 Years of Common Witness
by James M. Kushiner

Nuns Interrupted

The Fate of Slovakia’s Religious Orders During & After Communist Rule
by Mark Nuckols

columns

First Books

Magic Moments

by Kathie Johnson

Contours of Culture

Leisure Suits Us

On Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture

by Ken Myers

As It Is Written...

Fullness of Faith

by Patrick Henry Reardon

24.5—Sept/Oct 2011

features

Leaven Disciples

A Discussion of James Davison Hunter’s To Change the World
by Hunter Baker

A Friendship of Letters

On the Correspondence Between Thomas Merton & Dorothy Day
by Jim Forest

The Way of St. James

My 500-Mile Pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago
by Leon J. Podles

A Many-Storied Monastic

A Critical Memoir of Thomas Merton at Gethsemani Abbey
by Patrick Henry Reardon

The French Connection

The Many Parallels Between France’s Revolution & Today’s Anti-Christian Secularism
by James Hitchcock

views

Table Manners

Russell D. Moore on the Welcoming Catholicity of Closed Communion

Pupils Delighted

Anthony Esolen on Wondering or Wandering Through College Education

Hear the Angel Voices

Thomas Howard on the Versified Dogma of Christian Worship

Welcoming Antichrist

S. M. Hutchens on Living Comfortably with the Sectarian Impulse

book reviews

A Better Homeland

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy by Carlos Eire
reviewed by Bernardo Aparicio García

departments

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