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Christian Freedom in the Contest with Secularism by Douglas Farrow
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Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter
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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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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
21.9 — November 2008
18.10 — December 2005
The Leading Edge
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15.2 — March 2002
16.2 — March 2003
23.4 — July/August 2010
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
26.1 — Jan/Feb 2013
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002â2005)
15.5 — June 2002
15.8 — October 2002
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pondering the Christian life
(1993â2004)
17.10 — December 2004
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22.8 — November/December 2009
An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden
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38.3 — May/Jun, 2025
Down But Not Out
Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream by Timothy S. Goeglein
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Butlerâs Lies
Whoâs Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
A review by Alexander T. Riley
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
The Sexual Reformation
A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Lutherâs Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521â1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.5 — Sept/Oct, 2025
The Scope of the Pope
Infallibility, Integrity and Obedience: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848â2023 by John M. Rist
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