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Articles
Who Elected Clinton: A Collision of Values
by James L. Guth
China’s Christian History
by Charles Horner
That They May Have Life
A Statement of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
by A Statement
Suicide Is Not a Private Choice
by David Novak
End No-Fault Divorce?
A Symposium
by Maggie Gallagher / Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Opinion
Canada’s Judicial Captivity
by Ian A. Hunter
Conflicting Worlds of Welfare Reform
by Lawrence M. Mead
Now for Some Good News
by Frederica Mathewes-Green
Oh Canada
by James Nuechterlein
The San Francisco Solution
by William J. Levada
Letters
August/September Letters
by Various
Poetry
Timor Mortis
by Joseph Bottum
Dirge
by Joseph Bottum
Cosmos
by André Ryerson
The Public Square
In the Beauty of Holiness
by Richard John Neuhaus
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