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The Humanity Lost When Our Ends Are Denied by Anthony Esolen
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Thomas Albert Howard on the Sublime & Helpful Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius
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The Chapel at the End of the Earth
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Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith
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The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
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31.6—November/December 2018
Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley
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On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility by Graeme Hunter
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From Heavenly Harmony
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14.4 — May 2001
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
26.6 — Nov/Dec 2013
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma
23.4 — July/August 2010
Nathan O. Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity
The Matter at Hand
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
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12.4 — July/August 1999
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book reviews
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
The Sexual Reformation
A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521–1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Divinely Detailed
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
A review by Charles Carman
38.3 — May/Jun, 2025
Down But Not Out
Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream by Timothy S. Goeglein
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025
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Light from Light: A Theological Reflection on the Nicene Creed by Robert Barron
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