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Seth D. Mitchell on Foolish Faith in Technological Salvation
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Christian Freedom in the Contest with Secularism by Douglas Farrow
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Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith
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on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
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33.1—January/February 2020
Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?
The Politicization of Pediatrics in America by Alexander F. C. Webster
32.6—November/December 2019
Historical Truth, Beguiling Stories & Three Kinds of Hearers by Anthony Esolen
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From Heavenly Harmony
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As It Is Written . . .
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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The Leading Edge
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(2001–2013)
20.2 — March 2007
15.6 — July/August 2002
21.4 — May 2008
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.4 — July/August 2013
Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
23.4 — July/August 2010
Nathan O. Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity
24.4 — July/August 2011
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
16.3 — April 2003
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18.1 — January/February 2005
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
17.1 — January/February 2004
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15.6 — July/August 2002
An Interview with Norwegian Dissident Roald Flemestad
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38.4 — Jul/Aug, 2025
Art & Human Ends
Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts by Daniel McInerny
A review by Louise McCray
38.5 — Sept/Oct, 2025
The Scope of the Pope
Infallibility, Integrity and Obedience: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848–2023 by John M. Rist
A review by William J. Tighe
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
38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025
Our One Faith
Light from Light: A Theological Reflection on the Nicene Creed by Robert Barron
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