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History’s Most Powerful Rabbi


by Yehudah Mirsky

The Catholic Writer Today

Catholic writers must renovate and reoccupy their own tradition.

by Dana Gioia

Jesus the Muslim Hippie


by Gabriel Said Reynolds

Evangelical Retreat?

A transformed American culture calls for a new and different Evangelical engagement of politics.

by Russell D. Moore

The Public Square

How to Limit Government


by R. R. Reno

Opinion

The Naked College Quad


by Owen Strachan

Essays

T. F. Torrance and the Latin Heresy

Praising and critiquing one of the twentieth century’s greatest theologians.

by Douglas Farrow

Reviews

Love’s Scandal

A review of God’s Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us

by Shalom Carmy

Diapers and Diplomas

A review of Do Babies Matter?

by Sarah Klitenic Wear

Democracy’s Revenge

A review of A Short History of the Twentieth Century

by Daniel Johnson

Time’s on Our Side

A review of The Illusion of History

by Matthew W. Maguire

Briefly Noted


by Various

While We're At It

While We’re At It - Pt. XVI

Minority atheists, Retreating Evangelicals, etc.

by David Mills

The Back Page

These Fragments Have I Shored

The Back Page

by David Bentley Hart

Poetry

Listening to Timkat


by Daniel Luttrull

Prayer


by Kevin Hart

Letters

Letters

Various

by Various

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