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Articles
At the Gates of Notre Dame
by Joseph Bottum
Inventing the Crusades
by Thomas F. Madden
Pro-Animal, Pro-Life
by Mary Eberstadt
Jewish Survival in a Gentile World
by David P. Goldman
Keeping Time
by Wilfred M. McClay
Starlight in Hell
by Algis Valiunas
Opinion
St. Paul in the Public Square
by Charles J. Chaput
Science Seeking Understanding
by Stephen M. Barr
The Public Square
And the War Came
by Joseph Bottum
Reviews
A Tale of Two Cities
by David Paul Deavel
Atheists and Christians Together
by Edward T. Oakes
Cold War Religion
by Thomas F. Farr
Collected Letters
by Gary A. Anderson
Sanctifying Islam
by Gabriel Said Reynolds
Briefly Noted 230
by Various
Poetry
Contingency
by Marilyn L. Taylor
Los Angeles in Fog
by Kevin Durkin
Georgic
by Timothy Murphy
For a Young Dancer on St. Patrick’s Day
by A. E. Stallings
For Kashmir
by Timothy Steele
“I Did Not Come to Call the Righteous”
by Julie Stoner
The Mailbox
by Greg Alan Brownderville
Time Management
by Stephen Scaer
Unawares, by Parrots
by Frank Osen
Wine Cellar
by David Haar
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