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Principles for Living in the Negative World
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Patrick Henry Reardon on Proverbial Answers for Annoying Questions
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Blake Adams on Lectionaries & the Reading of Scripture as Worship
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A Guidepost in Our Current Misery
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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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Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
18.10 — December 2005
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The Leading Edge
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.2 — March/April 2012
Craig Gay's The Way of the (Modern) World: Or, Why It's Tempting to Live As If God Doesn't Exist
22.7 — September/October 2009
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Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma
The Matter at Hand
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15.5 — June 2002
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
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17.10 — December 2004
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17.6 — July/August 2004
An conversation with William A. Dembski, Phillip E. Johnson, Jed Macosko, Paul Nelson, Edward Sisson, Richard Weikart, and Jonathan Witt About the Past, Present & Future of Darwinism & Design
book reviews
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
Son of Odysseus
Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse by Jonathan Golding
A review by Louis Markos
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
One Big Phony War
Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity, and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World by David Hutchings and James C. Ungureanu
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35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
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35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022
A Tale Told by an Idiot
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