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editorials

No We Can't

The Delusions of Backing the Abortion Regime
by James M. Kushiner

The Man Alive

Irenaeus Did Not Teach Self-Fulfillment
by Patrick Henry Reardon

communiqué

Conscience Cause

Religious Liberty & the Affordable Care Act
by Daniel McConchie

columns

As It Is Written...

The New Healing

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Illuminations

Ascending & Descending Glory

by Anthony Esolen

First Books

Sorted by Subject

by Kathie Johnson

A Thousand Words

Albrecht Dürer's Noli Me Tangere

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

Contours of Culture

The Five Books of Peterson

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson

by Ken Myers

25.5—Sept/Oct 2012

features

Lin Yutang & the New China

Is One Man's Legacy a Reason to Hope for the Nation's Future?
by David Marshall

Detectives of Significance

Sherlock Holmes, Umberto Eco & the Search for Meaning
by Louis Markos

Changing Times & Permanent Things

An Inquiry into "Progressive" Ideas in Light of the Moral Universe
by Thomas Howard

views

United in Reverence

Christopher Jackson on Christian Orthodoxy & the Self-Revelation of God

Believe Free or Die

Patrick Henry Reardon on Mathematical Certainty & the Liberty of Faith

Unsafe Sacrament

Paul Gregory Alms on Death in Baptism as a Necessary Prerequisite to Resurrection

Easy Burden

Graeme Hunter on the Blessings & Challenges of Homeschooling

book reviews

Fishtown vs. Belmont

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by Charles Murray
reviewed by Denyse O'Leary

Believe It or Not

The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions
by Karl W. Giberson
and Francis S. Collins
reviewed by Casey Luskin

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