editorials

The Eternal Fatherly

by Leon J. Podles

interview

Woman on A Mission

Elisabeth Elliot on Missions, Youth, Men & Women
by James M. Kushiner

report

Debating Design

The Concordia Conference on Intelligent Design
by Patrick Henry Reardon

The Fear of Renewal

Seminary Event Blasts Mainline Reform Groups
by Mark Tooley

columns

As It Is Written...

Let Your Face Shine Upon Us

by Patrick Henry Reardon

Practical Christianity

With All Thy Soul

by Thomas S. Buchanan

14.1—January/February 2001

features

Fatherhood Uprooted

A Sociologist Looks at Fatherlessness & Its Causes
by David Blankenhorn

Missing Fathers of the Church

The Feminization of the Church & the Need for Christian Fatherhood
by Leon J. Podles

The Father Almighty, Maker of Male & Female

A Psychologist Looks at the Importance of God the Father for Male & Female Identity
by Paul C. Vitz

Rays of Fatherhood Shining Forth

Why We Call God "Father": Biblical & Cultural Considerations
by John W. Miller

The Christian Heart of Fatherhood

The Place of Marriage, Authority & Service in the Recovery of Fatherhood
by John M. Haas

Thou Art the Everlasting Son of the Father

The Christian Meaning of the Fatherhood of God
by Patrick Henry Reardon

views

The Craft of Fatherhood

S. M. Hutchens on Christian Fatherhood

Too Close for Comfort

Rod Dreher on Liberal Christianity

book reviews

A Boyhood Stolen

As Nature Made Him
by John Colapinto
reviewed by Graeme Hunter

Uncommon Valor & Common Virtue

Flags of Our Fathers
by James Bradley
with Ron Powers
reviewed by Roberto Rivera

Orthodox Ecology

Beyond the Shattered Image
by John Chryssavgis
reviewed by Vincent Rossi

Doers of the Word

Living the Christian Story
by Sister Mary Jean Manninen, CSM
reviewed by Richard J. Mammana, Jr.

departments

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