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editorials

Changed Agents

Without Conversion We Labor in Vain
by James M. Kushiner

columns

The Leading Edge

Out from the Ether

by Phillip E. Johnson

Illuminations

A Song for a Nation

by Anthony Esolen

As It Is Written...

Early Education

by Patrick Henry Reardon

A Thousand Words

Albrecht Durer's Vision of the Seven Candlesticks

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

Contours of Culture

Image & Reality

An Antique Drum: The World as Image by Thomas Howard

by Ken Myers

25.4—July/August 2012

features

Scripture in the Age of Google

The Digital Bible & How We Can Read It
by Robin Phillips

Passing Through the Sirens

The Trials of the Christian Wayfarer in the World
by David Elliot

Requiem for a Nixon Man

The Redemption of Charles Colson's Loyalty
by Russell D. Moore

Terrorism and Its Civilized Discontents

An Eastern Orthodox Ethical Reflection on Torture as Counter-Terrorism
by Alexander F. C. Webster

All the Lonely People

The Corrosive & Far-Reaching Fallout of the Sexual Revolution
by Anthony Esolen

views

Fierce Charity

S. M. Hutchens on the Christian's Duty to Be Strictly Loving

The Guilty Generation

John Patrick on an Unnoticed Transformation of the Cause of Disease

Shaped, Fixed & Free

Patrick Henry Reardon on the Divine Gift of Truth

Catharsis? Caritas!

Thomas Howard on the Crucial Limits of Art's Power to Transform

Song of Jupiter

Nathanael Devlin on the Hymn That Turned His World Around

book reviews

Changing Churches

Journeys of Faith: Evangelicalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Anglicanism
edited by Robert L. Plummer
reviewed by Louis Markos

Hero Among the Wounded

The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry
edited by Mark T. Mitchell and Nathan Schlueter
reviewed by Arthur W. Hunt III

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