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Volume 01 August 1992

• D. G. Hart, on Oliver Stone's JFK and why film has trouble relating historical realities
• Peter Kreeft, on Between Heaven and Hell, a post-death dialogue among John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley
• Nigel Cameron, on the loss of the Hippocratic tradition in medicine
• Ted Prescott, on the life and work of the late English painter Francis Bacon
• Quentin Schultze, on Pat Robertson's plans to begin a 24-hour game show TV channel
• James Davison Hunter, on Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America
• Gregory Wolfe, on Mark Helprin's novel, A Soldier of the Great War
• Edward Mendelson, on how poet W. H. Auden responded to modern culture
• Ted Libbey, on soprano Kathleen Battle

Volume 02 March/April 1993

• P. D. James, on why evil characters are easier to depict than good characters, and why some people like mysteries while others don't
• William Kilpatrick, on Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: Moral Illiteracy and the Case for Character Education
• James Schall, on what sports and games tell us about human nature
• A. N. Wilson, on how writing the biography of C. S. Lewis led him to renounce belief in Christianity
• Michael Aeschliman, on why A. N. Wilson is wrong about C. S. Lewis
• Russell Hittinger, on the Supreme Court's decision in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey
• Richard Crawford, on composer William Billings, one of the first important American composers of sacred music

Volume 03 May/June 1993

• Andrew Kimbrell, on the bioethical issues discussed in The Human Body Shop
• Allan C. Carlson, on From Cottage to Workstation: The Family's Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age
• Larry Woiwode, on Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, and what fiction is good for
• Peter Kreeft, on the reasonableness of faith, the devilishness of deconstructionism, and The Snakebite Letters
• Alan Jacobs, on The Children of Men by P. D. James
• Thomas Morris, on Blaise Pascal and why people still ask the Big Questions
• Jay Tolson, on how Walker Percy's search for authenticity led to his conversion
• John Hodges, on the popularity of Henryck Gorecki's Third Symphony

Volume 04 July/Aug. 1993

• Alan Jacobs, on The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller, and why sentimentalism in life and in art is a moral problem
• Alzina Stone Dale, on unknown fiction by Dorothy Sayers, and how she was a certain kind of feminist
• Ken Myers, on composer John Tavener, and on religious symbolism in high fashion
• Paul McHugh, on how psychiatrists allow themselves to be swept up by the Zeitgeist
• Herbert Schlossberg, on renewal in the churches and in society
• John Hodges, on Leonard Bernstein's view of religion and music

Volume 05 Sept./Oct. 1993

• David Aikman, on his novel When the Almond Tree Blossoms, and on the perpetual temptations of totalitarianism
• Edward Ericson, Jr., on Solzhenitsyn's moral foundation and his criticism of modern Western culture
• James Pontuso, on the spiritual dimensions of freedom
• James Finn, on the United Nations World Conference on human rights
• Ken Myers, on L. A. Law's Bob Jones graduate, and on how TV promotes glibness
• Ralph C. Wood, on the backslidden comedy of novelist Peter De Vries
• Stephen Bates, on textbooks and the First Amendment in Hawkins County, Tennessee
• Drew Trotter, on director Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence

Volume 06 Nov./Dec. 1993

• Terry Eastland, on the history of the Supreme Court's interpretation of religious liberty
• Ted Prescott, on nudity in art and advertising
• Wade Clark Roof, on A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation
• Alan Jacobs, on W. H. Auden's poetry and social philosophy
• Ken Myers, on the culture of therapy
• Neil Postman, on how technology alters consciousness
• Roger Lundin, on The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World
• Roger Bullard, on Messiah: The Gospel According to Handel's Oratorio

Volume 07 Jan./Feb 1994

• Dean Kenyon, on his fight for academic freedom at San Francisco State University
• Phillip Johnson, on scientists' intolerance toward theories about intelligent design
• Jane Metcalfe, on technology and community
• John Hodges, on sacred music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Dominic Aquila, on the late cultural critic, Christopher Lasch
• Robert Royal, on "Reinventing the American People," multiculturalism and the shaping of national identity
• Ted Prescott, on the British realist painter Lucian Freud
• Drew Trotter, on Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning Schindler's List

Volume 08 March/April 1994

• Alan Jacobs, on novelist Iris Murdoch and how fiction encourages reflection in the moral life
• Gilbert Meilaender, on "Random Acts of Kindness," cultivating virtue, and the meaning of kindness
• Richard Lints, on The Fabric of Theology: A Prolegomenon to Evangelical Theology
• Lynn Neary, on religion reporting's rebirth in the mainstream media
• Ken Myers, on Recent Periodicals
• James Davison Hunter, on the superficiality of journalism
• Howard Rheingold, on the viability of "Virtual Community"
• Dominic Aquila, on Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's Te Deum

Volume 09 May/June 1994

• William Bennett, on the power of stories in the cultivation of virtue
• Mark Juergensmeyer, on religious nationalism and the possibilities of new cold wars
• Ed Knippers, on the spiritual reasons for the vivid physicality of his paintings of Biblical narratives
• Joshua Gamson, on Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America
• Ken Myers, on "attitude" and violence in pop culture and on the streets
• Richard Doerflinger, on the ethical numbness of the NIH Embryo Research Panel
• Richard John Neuhaus, on assisted suicide and the chilling prospects of modern eugenics
• Ted Libbey, on making an initial approach to classical music

Volume 10 July/Aug. 1994

• Paul Vitz, on the meaning of freedom and the dangers of "selfism"
• Robert Wuthnow, on small groups and the changing understanding and practice of Christian faith
• Marjorie Mead, on Shadowlands and the real personalities of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman
• Martha Bayles, on why modern artists feel compelled to shock
• Ken Myers, on our culture's disturbing fascination with death
• Ted Prescott, on the spirit and contemporary manifestations of Surrealism
• George Marsden, on the establishment of nonbelief in American universities
• John Hodges, on Gregorian chant

Volume 11 Sept./Oct. 1994

• Richard Skolnik, on Baseball and the Pursuit of Innocence: A Fresh Look at the Old Ball Game
• Laura Nash, on the influence of religious faith in the marketplace
• Dick Keyes, on heroism, character, and the imitation of Christ
• Douglas LeBlanc, on musings on mortality by the Crash Test Dummies
• Ken Myers, on Michael Moore's TV Nation and terminal irony in prime time
• Gene Edward Veith, on communicating truth to a cynical age
• Alan Jacobs, on Chinua Achebe and the dilemma of living between two cultures
• Ted Libbey, on Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

Volume 12 Nov./Dec. 1994

• George Weigel, on posturing and prudence in pro-life politics
• Don Eberly, on the inability of politics to cure cultural problems
• David Wells, on recapturing a "weighty" understanding of God
• Alan Jacobs, on the Christian conviction of poet Christina Rossetti
• Ken Myers, on instances of naturalistic positivism in recent science journalism
• Nancy Pearcey, on misunderstanding the history of science
• Leon Kass, on the deeper meaning of eating
• John Hodges, on J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio

Volume 13 Jan./Feb. 1995

• Richard Noll, on the influence of paganism in the life and thought of C. G. Jung
• Armand Nicholi, on Sigmund Freud's religious longings
• Jackson Lears, on how advertising detaches us from the world
• Alan Jacobs, on Anne Rice and the popularity of her vampire novels
• Ken Myers, on reporting about religion
• Rand & Robyn Miller, on MYST, the bestselling computer game
• Sven Birkerts, on how the act of reading assists in building self-understanding
• Stephen G. Smith, on his magazine Civilization, produced in cooperation with the Library of Congress
• Deal Hudson, on the return of melody in modern music

Volume 14 March/April 1995

• Thomas Cahill, on the story of How the Irish Saved Civilization
• Mark Noll, on the history of Evangelical anti-intellectualism
• Paul Davies, on God and time
• William Lane Craig, on problems in the thinking of Paul Davies
• Alan Jacobs, on the moral dumbing down of Louisa May Alcott's novel in the movie version of Little Women
• Drew Trotter, on the moral indifference of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino
• Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., on the need for a recovery of the meaning of sin
• Eugene Genovese, on learning from the Southern Agrarians
• Ted Libbey, on J. S. Bach's St. John Passion

Volume 15 May/June 1995

• Jean Bethke Elshtain, on Democracy on Trial
• Barry Alan Shain, on communalism in early American Protestantism
• Christopher Wolfe, on the moral basis for strong local government
• A. G. Mojtabai, on how contemporary novelists ignore religion
• Robert Pinsky, on the challenges of translating Dante's Inferno
• Suzanne Wolfe, on choosing books for children
• Amy Waldman, on the ersatz community of TV shopping networks
• Mark Crispin Miller, on the dehumanized feeling so common in modern advertising
• Ted Prescott, on the Whitney Biennial, Bruce Nauman, and the "Mutant Materials" exhibit
• Edward Rothstein, on the inner meaning of music and mathematics

Volume 16 July/Aug. 1995

• Philip Cushman, on the cultural history of psychotherapy in America
• R. Laurence Moore, on religious disestablishment and the growth imperative
• Keith J. Pavlischek, on the shrinking foundations supporting religious liberty
• Dean M. Kelley, on the government's deadly interpretation of the Branch Davidian religion
• Alan Jacobs, on the storytelling powers of neurologist Oliver Sacks
• Kathleen Murphy, on Ingmar Bergman's films and the lack of seriousness in contemporary film
• Michael Allen Gillespie, on the medieval (and theological) sources of nihilism
• Robert Wilken, on similarities between the early Church's culture and our own
• Francis Crociata, on the music of American composer Leo Sowerby

Volume 17 Sept./Oct. 1995

• Alan Jacobs, on the seafaring fiction of novelist Patrick O'Brian
• Barry Sanders, on the deeper dynamics of literacy
• Mark Slouka, on bizarre Gnostic temptations in cyberspace
• Alan Ehrenhalt, on how valuing choice hurts community
• Geoffrey T. Holtz, on twenty-somethings and the shape of family life
• Mardi Keyes, on dubious assumptions about the nature of adolescence
• Brad Wilcox, on tradition and belief
• Glenn Loury, on race and relationships
• John Hodges, on the influence of Russian Orthodoxy in the music of John Tavener

Volume 18 Nov./Dec. 1995

• Leigh Eric Schmidt, on how the marketplace has shaped American celebration of the holidays
• John Patrick Diggins, on how pragmatism fails to offer a coherent way of understanding of the world
• Joseph Frank, on moral themes in the fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Thomas Howard, on the supernatural thrillers of Charles Williams
• Ken Myers, on Marsalis on Music, a book and a video series on music appreciation
• Deal Hudson, on the themes of family in the work of Sigrid Undset, author of Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken
• George McKenna, on how President Lincoln might have fought abortion
• Ted Libbey, on master English composer Henry Purcell

Volume 19 Jan./Feb. 1996

• Robert Goodman, on economic and moral effects of state-sponsored gambling
• Ted Prescott, on modernist artists Brancusi and Mondrian, and why they were attracted to abstraction
• Daniel Chirot, on how resentful nationalism and utopian ideologies combine to form Modern Tyrants
• Edward Ericson, Jr., on books by and about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Alan Jacobs, on the portrayal of morals and manners in films based on Jane Austen novels
• Charles Sykes, on why schools have abandoned the life of the mind
• Allan C. Carlson, on what's wrong with Hillary Rodham Clinton's It Takes a Village
• Thomas Connolly, on music and cosmic coherence

Volume 20 March/April 1996

• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, on the benefits of single-sex education, and the confusion of "elite" feminism
• Robert D. Richardson, Jr., on why the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson continues to attract certain religious seekers
• Roger Lundin, on Emerson's assertion of alternatives to Christianity, and how they have seeped under the American cultural skin
• Wilfred McClay, on individualism and collectivism in American society
• Andrew A. Tadie, on learning to love and learn from G. K. Chesterton
• Robert Jenson, on why the life of the mind matters to the Church, and how it should take shape in the world
• Ted Prescott, on why artists have been attracted to abstraction, and what viewers should look for in abstract art
• Ted Libbey, on Haydn's The Creation

Volume 21 May/June 1996

• James Twitchell, on ways advertising shapes (and thins out) American culture
• Lynne Cheney, on the politics of ideas in higher education
• Peter Berkowitz, on how Friedrich Nietzsche was torn between certainty of the "death of God" and belief in the divinity of truth
• Ron Hansen, on what makes good fiction
• Frederica Mathewes-Green, on "The America We Seek," an important pro-life manifesto
• Robert Higgs, on how professional sports have lost a sense of play
• Terry Eastland, on why affirmative action is ending
• Ted Libbey, on Brahms's German Requiem

Volume 22 July/Aug. 1996

• Andrew Delbanco, on how American culture has effaced the idea of evil
• Michael Uhlmann, on two appellate court cases concerning the matter of doctor-assisted suicide
• Carlos Gomez, on why some American doctors have embraced the idea of killing their patients
• Michael Sandel, on the dangers of seeing democracy merely as morally neutral "procedures" to adjudicate differences
• Hadley Arkes, on how arguments for legalizing same-gender marriages go further than their advocates would like
• Robert George, on why marriage is an intrinsic good

Volume 23 Sept./Oct. 1996

• John Steadman Rice, on how the idea of codependency is based on tenets of "liberation psychotherapy"
• E. D. Hirsch, Jr., on The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them
• Ted McAllister, on Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voeglin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order
• Judith Skelton Grant, on Robertson Davies: Man of Myth
• Terry Teachout, on why music should not be propagandistic
• John Boyle, on his "Requiem for the Unborn"
• Leland Ryken, on what makes a classic and how we should read one
• Daniel Ritchie, on a Biblical view of language and literature

Volume 24 Nov./Dec. 1996

• James Davison Hunter, on a survey about American political life conducted by the Post-Modernity Project
• Robert H. Bork, on judicial complicity in the coarsening of America
• Rochelle Gurstein, on how some advocates of unbridled free expression had second thoughts
• Roger Shattuck, on how we've lost the ability to recognize the fact that some knowledge is bad for us
• Michael Behe, on how complexity in cells suggests an intelligent designer
• David Morgan, on the Paintings of Warner Sallman
• Ted Libbey, on Gabriel Fauré's Requiem

Volume 25 Jan./Feb. 1997

• Douglas Groothuis, on The Soul in Cyberspace
• Harold Bloom, on the Gnostic view of creation and fall
• Gilbert Meilaender, on the outlines of a distinctively Christian bioethics
• Susan Bergman, on martyrs and the meaning of suffering
• Paul Marshall, on international persecution of Christians
• George Marsden, on The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
• Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, on divorce as a democratic institution
• Leonard Payton, on The Pilgrim's Progress by Ralph Vaughn Williams

Volume 26 March/April 1997

• James Gilbert, on how science and religion negotiate for public respect
• William Everdell, on the meaning and method of modernism
• David Walsh, on the genius of liberal democracy
• Alan Jacobs, on The Dictionary of Global Culture and "Real" Global Culture
• Jeffrey Meikle, on American Plastic: A Cultural History
• Jeffrey Burton Russell, on A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence
• Roger Lundin, on Harry Mulisch's novel, The Discovery of Heaven
• Gordon Kreplin, on music, craft, gift, and beauty

Volume 27 Summer 1997

• John Horgan, on whether or not we're coming to the end of the age of science
• Keith Devlin, on the limits of logic
• Robert Kanigel, on modern industrial efficiency
• Kate Campbell, on music and memories
• Patrick Samway, on Walker Percy: A Life
• J. Budziszewski, on tolerance and the law "written on the heart"
• Jeff Johnson, on his recordings with flutist Brian Dunning
• Stephen Lawhead, on retelling the Arthurian legends

Volume 28 Sept./Oct. 1997

• Gregory Wolfe, on Malcolm Muggeridge
• Dana Mack, on how our culture makes raising kids difficult
• James L. Nolan, on why therapeutic ideas are showing up in laws and in courts
• Thomas H. Naylor, on the Babelesque dangers of giantism
• Daniel Ritchie, on the political wisdom of Edmund Burke
• Edward Tenner, on how machines get their revenge
• Richard Noll, on Carl Jung as The Aryan Christ

Volume 29 Nov./Dec. 1997

• Richard John Neuhaus, on the recent judicial usurpation of democracy
• John Patrick Diggins, on Max Weber's insights into democracy and leadership
• Norman Cantor, on how postmodern culture resembles the baroque period
• Alan Jacobs, on William Faulkner as a modernist and a Southerner
• Charles Marsh, on the theological depth of the civil rights movement
• David Park, on how pre-modern Christians understood light
• Ted Libbey, on Franz Schubert's role in inventing Romanticism

Volume 30 Jan./Feb. 1998

• Glenn Stanton, on the health of marriages and the health of society
• Caroline J. Simon, on love, destiny, and imagination
• Paul Marshall, on the theological meaning of vocation
• David Lowenthal, on American Constitutional design and the need for virtue
• Reinder Van Til, on Lost Daughters: Recovered Memory Therapy and the People It Hurts
• John Ellis, on Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities
• Clyde Kilby, on C. S. Lewis and the roles of reason and imagination

Volume 31 March/April 1998

• David Orgon Coolidge, on Dale v. Boy Scouts, which requires the Scouts to admit homosexuals
• James Twitchell, on how American culture has eliminated shame from our experience
• Thomas Frank, on how advertisers came to link their products with the idea of self-fulfillment
• Keith Windschuttle, on the killing of the discipline of history
• Wilfred McClay, on history and academic advancement
• David Harlan, on history as moral reflection
• Wilfred McClay, on historian David Harlan
• Gilbert Meilaender, on C. S. Lewis's self-denying gospel

Volume 32 May/June 1998

• Mark Kingwell, on hope and fear at the edge of the millennium
• Daniel Pipes, on where beliefs about conspiracies come from
• Herb Kutchins, on the DSM and problems in making mental health diagnoses
• Nicholas Wolterstorff, on the presence of God in the paintings of Stanley Spencer
• Vincent Scully, on the nature of cities and urban life
• Richard Moe, on preserving communities and saving old buildings
• Joel Carpenter, on fundamentalism as a true religious movement, not a reactionary social movement
• Bruce L. Edwards, Jr., on learning from and teaching C. S. Lewis

Volume 33 July/Aug. 1998

• Elizabeth Haiken, on Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery
• Patrick Glynn, on recovering belief
• Thomas Howard, on C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces
• David Wells, on how our culture distracts us from remembering moral nature
• Peter Heslam, on Abraham Kuyper, Calvinist theologian and statesman
• Suzanna Sherry, on the assault on truth in legal scholarship
• Ted Libbey, on Felix Mendelssohn's oratorios, Elijah and Paulus
• David Wells, on the contrast between classic and postmodern spirituality

Volume 34 Sept./Oct. 1998

• Michael Aeschliman, on C. S. Lewis and the problem of scientism
• Jeremy Rifkin, on The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene And Remaking the World
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, on Vaclav Havel, identity politics, and the possibilities of democracy
• Katherine Shaw Spaht, on the purposes of covenant marriage laws
• Steven L. Nock, on why married couples divorce
• Louise Cowan, on how classics address our imagination
• Ramsey MacMullen, on the rise of Christendom
• Ted Libbey, on the music of Hildegard von Bingen

Volume 35 Nov./Dec. 1998

• Jill Paton Walsh, on completing Dorothy Sayers's unfinished novel, Thrones, Dominations
• James Como, on the rhetorical skills of C. S. Lewis
• Walter Hooper, on his first meeting with C. S. Lewis
• Victor Davis Hanson, on how Greek convictions shaped Western institutions
• Robert C. Roberts, on Christian psychology and the definition of human personality
• David Gill, on Jacques Ellul's The Presence of the Kingdom
• Ted Smith, III, on Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences
• Ken Myers, on Christmas Music

Volume 36 Jan./Feb. 1999

• Vigen Guroian, on cultivating virtue in children
• James Tunstead Burtchaell, on how church-related colleges become secularized
• Dallas Willard, on training church leaders
• Robert Wuthnow, on how spiritual seekers understand their beliefs
• Thomas Oden, on why the contemporary Church must learn from the early Church
• Darrel Amundsen, on the early Church's views on suicide
• Edward J. Larson, on what really happened at the Scopes trial
• Roger Lundin, on Emily Dickinson

Volume 37 March/April 1999

• Gregory Wolfe, on how "religious humanism" follows the model of the incarnation
• Jill P. Baumgaertner, on violence and the grotesque in Flannery O'Connor
• D. Bruce Lockerbie, on the struggle of many modern writers against religion
• Roger Lundin, on Alfred Kazin's God and the American Writer
• Donald McCullough, on the religious rootedness of courtesy
• David Nye, on how technologies build cultural momentum in unexpected ways
• Kathleen Powers Erickson, on the Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh
• Michael Marissen, on how J. S. Bach avoided anti-Judaism

Volume 38 May/June 1999

• Craig Gay, on how modern culture encourages atheism
• Alvin Kernan, on why the academy can't afford to be too democratic
• Erik Davis, on myth, magic, and mysticism in the age of information
• Marva Dawn, on teaching children about being the Church
• Wendy Shalit, on the lost virtue of female modesty
• Marva Dawn, on sexual education and the Church's children
• Leon Podles, on why men are often alienated from Christianity
• Dan Blazer, on the incomplete conversation between psychiatry and Christianity

Volume 39 July/Aug. 1999

• Neal Gabler, on how entertainment has become the highest value in our culture
• C. John Sommerville, on How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society
• John L. Locke, on the value of personal interaction, and how technology is displacing it
• Vigen Guroian, on gardening
• Marion Montgomery, on how higher education has lost its way
• Peter Berkowitz, on why liberal democracies need virtuous citizens
• Harry Clor, on the need for the law to return to encouraging a public morality
• Ted Libbey, on French composer Francis Poulenc

Volume 40 Sept./Oct. 1999

• Joseph Epstein, on writing essays and education through magazines
• John Gray, on the cultural contradictions of global capitalism
• Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr., on why the First Amendment doesn't really protect Christian liberty
• William T. Pizzi, on Trials without Truth: Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to Do to Rebuild It.
• Pamela Walker Laird, on how nineteeth-century advertising promoted progress
• Albert Borgmann, on how technology disengages us from experiencing reality
• Neal Stephenson, on the "eureka" moments with codes and computers
• Alan Jacobs, on why Harry Potter's magic shouldn't trouble Christians

Volume 41 Nov./Dec. 1999

• Harry Blamires, on resisting secularism
• David Healy, on antidepressants and the concept of disease
• Christine Pohl, on the modern challenges to the practice of hospitality
• Paul Gutjahr, on the changing place of the Bible in American culture
• Francis Fukuyama, on human nature and the shape of moral community
• Paul Corby Finney, on visual arts and the Calvinist tradition
• J. A. C. Redford, on Christmas Music and the Incarnation

Volume 42 Jan./Feb. 2000

• Michael Kammen, on the historical transition from popular to mass culture
• Philip Fisher, on Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction
• John Horgan, on the limits of neuroscience
• William Dembski, on detecting intelligent design through "specified complexity"
• Steven Garber, on the breadth of Michael Polanyi's thought
• Dorothy Bass, on the need to restore form to our experience of time
• Paul Vitz, on Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism
• J. Budziszewski, on The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man
• David Aikman, on the heroism of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Volume 43 March/April 2000

• Jedediah Purdy, on the ironic mood and its effect on public life
• Lendol Calder, on the cultural significance of consumer credit
• John Nelson, on Soli Deo Gloria, commissioning sacred classical works
• George Arasimowicz, on crafting a tone poem about the life of Peter
• James Calvin Schaap, on writing and the challenge to piety
• Frederick Buechner, on the ministry of memoirs and the importance of remembering
• Kay Hymowitz, on mistaken ideas of adulthood and childhood
• Calvin Stapert, on My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach

Volume 44 May/June 2000

• James Davison Hunter, on the limits of the psychological view of character
• Brian Robertson, on the changes in attitudes toward work and home
• David Myers, on the disjunction of wealth and happiness, and crafting a "new American dream"
• Robert Frank, on the escalation of luxury and how it can be slowed
• Gayle Brandow Samuels, on trees, landscape, and cultural identity
• Thomas Hine, on The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
• Thomas Hibbs, on Seinfeld, Hannibal Lecter, and nihilism in popular culture
• Robin Leaver, on how J. S. Bach used musical forms to impart theological truths

Volume 45 July/Aug. 2000

• Jeff Speck, on how suburban sprawl prevents the formation of real neighborhoods
• Victor Davis Hanson, on the demise of family farms and what it means for American democracy
• Allan C. Carlson, on the contributions (and weaknesses) of 20th century agrarian thinkers
• Paulina Borsook, on how Silicon Valley enshrines libertarian values
• John F. Kilner, on possible strategies for rejecting cloning in the courts
• Robert E. Webber, on Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World
• Christoph Wolff, on how J. S. Bach used music to pursue an understanding of God through creation

Volume 46 Sept./Oct. 2000

• E. Michael Jones, on how horror films combat the assumptions of the Enlightenment
• D. G. Hart, on The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education
• Amy & Leon Kass, on training young people to imagine what love looks like
• John Leax, on the challenges of wise "caretaking" in a fallen world
• Richard Wilbur, on the ways in which words add "articulateness" to experience
• Roger Lundin, on Richard Wilbur's commitment to the reality of creation
• Ted Libbey, on the intricate, theologically inspired structure of Bach's B Minor Mass

Volume 47 Nov./Dec. 2000

• Christopher Clausen, on detachment from normative communities in a post-cultural age
• Don Eberly, on the meaning of and challenges for civil society
• George Weigel, on Pope John Paul II's theology of embodiment and sexuality
• Luci Shaw, on poetry that reminds us that Christ's suffering shadows over the celebration of the Incarnation
• Steve Wilkens, on Christianity and Western Thought: A History of Philosophers, Ideas, and Movements
• David Harvey, on place and spaces, public and private
• John Durham Peters, on the utopianism present in the modern idea of communication
• Masaaki Suzuki, on the ways in which Bach's music is a vehicle for the Gospel

Volume 48 Jan./Feb. 2001

• Jon Butler, on the United States as a modern society—in 1776
• Gary Cross, on An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
• Zygmunt Bauman, on the loss of permanence and solidity
• Pico Iyer, on The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
• Richard Stivers, on sex and violence in media and the rule of technology
• Larry Woiwode, on stories and giving form to experience
• Alan Jacobs, on Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy
• James Trott, on poetry and piety

Volume 49 Mar./Apr. 2001

• David Lyon, on the reconfiguration of religion against the backdrop of communication technologies and consumerism
• Christopher Wolfe, on homosexuality in American public life
• Patrick Fagan, on how sexuality became separated from parenthood
• Joseph E. Davis, on the struggle to preserve the self in a fragmenting era
• Morris Berman, on The Twilight of American Culture
• Frank Burch Brown, on Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life
• Robert K. Johnston, on neglected opportunities for film and theology to interact
• Ralph C. Wood, on the peculiar heroism of Frodo Baggins of Bag End

Volume 50 May/June 2001

• Stanley Carlson-Thies, on the theology of "charitable choice"
• Bruce S. Thornton, on the loss of ends and the exultation of appetite in the academy
• A. J. Conyers, on the origins of the modern view of tolerance (and of Big Government)
• Stanton L. Jones, on various configurations of science, morality, and homosexuality
• Arthur Holmes, on the history of Christianity and education in the liberal arts
• Carson Holloway, on All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics
• Ted Prescott, on the popular paintings and the prophetic claims of Thomas Kinkade
• Glenn C. Arbery, on the achievement of form in literature

Volume 51 July/Aug. 2001

• Nigel Cameron, on the challenges of bioethics and how Christians ignore them
• David Blankenhorn, on the public meaning of marriage and the private sector and the family
• Robert Wuthnow, on creativity and faith
• Mortimer Adler, on philosophical theism and How to Think about God
• Roger Lundin, on the vision of William Blake
• Dana Gioia, on the place of poetry and the way words work
• Mary Midgley, on the ways science explains reality
• Ted Libbey, on the life and music of Edmund Rubbra

Volume 52 Sept./Oct. 2001

• Tom Shippey, on J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
• Jeffrey Meyers, on George Orwell's illuminating use of language
• Ralph McInerny, on natural theology and the "subjective turn" in philosophy
• Daniel Ritchie, on William Cowper and how we know the world
• Ian Ker, on John Henry Newman and the purpose of education
• Mark Schwehn, on teaching, community, and virtue
• Gilbert Meilaender, on ways to think about work
• Tiina Nunnally, on the prose of Sigrid Undset

Volume 53 Nov./Dec. 2001

• Lawrence Adams, on the possibilities of religious pluralism in Islamic views of state and society
• Dana Gioia, on the craft, popularity, and significance of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Elmer M. Colyer, on theologian Thomas F. Torrance's understanding of the Incarnation
• R. A. Herrera, on how the Christian view of Creation and Incarnation shapes an understanding of history
• Margaret Visser, on learning to recognize the deep meaning in the design of Christian churches
• Joseph Pearce, on Tolkien's other writings, and on Tolkien's view of myth and story

Volume 54 Jan./Feb. 2002

• Robert P. Kraynak, on Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World
• Mitchell L. Stevens, on home schooling and the individuality of children
• Ralph C. Wood, on the Christian achievement of detective novelist P. D. James
• Mark Henrie, on the films of Whit Stillman and the overcoming of irony
• Terry Lindvall, on the responses of American churches to the advent of motion pictures
• Richard J. Mouw, on sin, culture, and common grace
• Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, on her book In Quiet Light: Poems on Vermeer's Women

Volume 55 March/April 2002

• John Kelsay, on Islam, the West, and the threat of secularism
• Robert George, on Oliver Wendell Holmes and the rise of legal realism
• Michael McConnell, on Christian responses to the dominant theories of law in the 20th century
• Mark Noll, on The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity
• J. C. Whitehouse, on Georges Bernanos and the mystery of the human person
• Paul Woodruff, on recovering the virtue of reverence

Volume 56 May/June 2002

• Miroslav Volf, on Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life
• J. Judd Owen, on liberal democracy and the taming of religion
• David Jacobson, on citizenship and belonging to a place
• Belden Lane, on Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality
• Alister McGrath, on the doctrine of Creation and the tasks of culture
• Don W. King, on the poetry of C. S. Lewis
• Edward Norman, on the logic of secularization
• Peter Augustine Lawler, on the proper meaning of postmodernism
• Peter Augustine Lawler, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on "Bobos" and the end of history

Volume 57 July/Aug. 2002

• John Hare, on why morality makes sense only on Christian grounds
• Clifford Putney, on "muscular Christianity" and the origins of the YMCA
• Andrei S. Markovits, on modernity, sports, and soccer in America
• Wilmer Mills, on time, narrative, and the sequences of life
• Steve Bruce, on diversity, individualism, secularization, and the atrophy of faith
• Colleen Carroll, on The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy
• Michael Budde & Robert Brimlow, Christianity Incorporated, on why Christianity should seem strange
• Wilmer Mills, from the bonus track of the CD edition, reads two more poems
• Steve Bruce, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on why rational choice theory doesn't apply to religion

Volume 58 Sept./Oct. 2002

• Hubert Dreyfus, on the limits of artificial intelligence
• Francis Fukuyama, on biotechnology and the arrogance of "participatory evolution"
• Gordon Preece, on the underlying assumption of Peter Singer's ethical ideas
• Gijs van Hensbergen, on the marvelous architecture of Antoni Gaudí
• Ted Prescott, on why the idea of beauty was rejected in the 20th century, and how it is returning
• Bradley J. Birzer, on the mythic roots of Middle Earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion
• Bradley J. Birzer, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on Tolkien's idea of myth

Volume 59 Nov./Dec. 2002

• Ron Hansen, on how novelists discover the themes of their writing
• Bernard Lewis, on the history of Islamic resentment toward the West
• Alan Jacobs, on Michael Chabon's Summerland and Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord
• Adrienne Chaplin, on Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts
• Todd Gitlin, on how the torrent of images and sounds overwhelms our lives
• Quentin Schultze, on practical disciplines to live well in the midst of intrusive communications technology
• Adrienne Chaplin, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the place and responsibility of Christian artists in their communities

Volume 60 Jan./Feb. 2003

• David Naugle, on the origins of the term "worldview," and the spiritual and religious significance of "worldview thinking" for Christians
• D. G. Hart, on the distinctions between evangelicalism and confessional Protestantism
• Dermot Quinn, on the historical wisdom of Christopher Dawson, and the skepticism of contemporary historians
• Russell Hittinger, on how a right to privacy emerged and evolved in American constitutional law
• Leon Kass, on why a commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is not enough to protect human dignity
• James Howard Kunstler, on how designing spaces that respect cars but not pedestrians has made so much of America unlovable if not unlivable
• Russell Hittinger, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on how a landmark federal court decision addressed physician-assisted suicide

Volume 61 Mar./Apr. 2003

• Ian Dowbiggin, on the history of the "right to die" movement
• Arthur J. Dyck, on Life's Worth: The Case against Assisted Suicide
• Daniel Dreisbach, on the building of Jefferson's "wall of separation"
• Michael L. Peterson, on the elements of a Christian philosophy of education
• Stephen Schwartz, on the differences between Balkan Muslims and those of Saudi Arabia
• Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, on how young people are taught to invest in themselves rather than family or community
• John H. Timmerman, on the person and poetry of Jane Kenyon
• John H. Timmerman, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on how Jane Kenyon lived and worked

Volume 62 May/June 2003

• Craig Bernthal, on the theme of judgment in the plays of Shakespeare
• James Turner Johnson, on recent distortions of the just war tradition
• Alissa Quart, on Branded: the Buying and Selling of Teenagers
• Stephen M. Barr, on how modern science has challenged the materialist view of human nature
• Lilian Calles Barger, on beauty, the body, spirituality, and the "true self"
• Corby Kummer, on the connections between food and community
• Lilian Calles Barger, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on why the food court at the megachurch isn't what our neighbors need

Volume 63 July/Aug. 2003

• Charles M. Sennott, on the dwindling Christian presence in the Middle East
• Nicholas Orme, on the nature of childhood in the Middle Ages
• J. Budziszewski, on the testimony of conscience and What We Can't Not Know
• Albert Borgmann, on the necessity of deliberate reflection about how technology shapes everyday life
• James A. Herrick, on The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition
• Darrell Cole, on contemporary cynicism about the possiblity of justice and the just war tradition
• Jackson Lears, on the deeper cultural roots of contemporary attitudes toward gambling
• James A. Herrick, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on Mormonism, gnosticism, and the significance of Luke Skywalker

Volume 64 Sept./Oct. 2003

• Paul Berman, on the links between Islamism and other totalitarian utopias
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, on justice and the vocation of government, and on maintaining a sense of the holy
• Hadley Arkes, on natural rights and "inadvertant treason"
• Ralph C. Wood, on the place of the seven virtues in J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of the moral life in The Lord of the Rings
• Jeremy Begbie, on what we learn about time, theology, and the structure of creation from the experience of music
• Hadley Arkes, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the rise of a new jurisprudence in Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade

Volume 65 Nov./Dec. 2003

• Stephen G. Post, on why there should be more room for public forms of religious expression
• Glenn C. Altschuler, on the advent of rock 'n' roll, and the various fears it created
• Mark Oppenheimer, on the importance of style and the rise of radical informality
• Johnny Cash, on faith, vocation, the Incarnation, and the Last Supper
• George Marsden, on how Jonathan Edwards understood world history and the American experience
• Julian Johnson, on various misunderstandings about classical music, and the differences between music as art and music as commodity
• Julian Johnson, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on music and the expectations of immediate gratification

Volume 66 Jan./Feb. 2004

• Leon Kass, on how various biotechnologies promise to fulfill certain legitimate human desires in illegitimate ways
• Nigel Cameron, on why American churches have been negligent in promoting robust thinking about the current bioethical crisis
• Susan Wise Bauer, on how adults can acquire many of the benefits of a classical education long after leaving school by reading wisely and well
• Esther Lightcap Meek, on belief, doubt, certainty, authority, and how knowledge (of God and other matters) is acquired, sustained, and properly recognized
• John Shelton Lawrence, on how John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Superman, and the governor of California all embody a great American myth
• Ralph C. Wood, on the disappointing discrepancies between Peter Jackson's films and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Leon Kass, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on how new technologies have changed the assumptions many people have about their children

Volume 67 Mar./Apr. 2004

• Eric O. Jacobsen, on urban churches and taking the concrete realities of community seriously
• Allan C. Carlson, on the family in American culture and in government policy
• Terence L. Nichols, on a sacramental view of Creation as an alternative to naturalism
• R. R. Reno, on spiritual lethargy and sloth and the need for a more heroic vision for spiritual possibility
• David Bentley Hart, on a Christian understanding of beauty rooted in the reality of the divine gift that is Creation
• J. A. C. Redford & Scott Cairns, on the making of "The Martyrdom of Polycarp"

Volume 68 May/June 2004

• Murray Milner, Jr., on American teenagers, schools, and the culture of consumption
• Steven C. Vryhof, on faith-based schools and the maintaining of community
• Douglas J. Schuurman, on recovering the Reformation's vision of vocation as neighbor-love and instrument of providence
• Robert Gagnon, on Biblical teaching about homosexuality and how it is being ignored
• Richard Stivers, on the role of technologies and "technique" in creating a sense of loneliness
• Quentin Schultze, on the role of religious paradigms in the American understanding of mass media
• Murray Milner, Jr., from the bonus track of the CD edition, on how the choices of parents create the institutional framework for the lives of adolescents

Volume 69 July/Aug. 2004

• John McWhorter, author of Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, on the death of formal speech
• Douglas Koopman, on the mis-steps and misunderstandings that hampered the Bush administration's implementation of Faith-Based Initiatives
• Daniel Ritchie, on the survival of "Great Books" programs at religious colleges
• Vincent Miller, on how the commodification of everything affects our sense of religious faith and practice (and on how we can resist)
• Barrett Fisher, on the sources of humor in the two versions of The Ladykillers
• Barrett Fisher, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the history of very serious thinking about what makes something funny

Volume 70 Sept./Oct. 2004

• W. Wesley McDonald, on the significance of Russell Kirk's themes of the "permanent things" and "the moral imagination"
• C. Ben Mitchell, on law, wisdom, and the possibilities of pastoral guidance on bioethical decisions
• Carl Elliott, on the medical industry's move from healing to enhancing self-esteem and idenity formation
• Richard Weikart, on the rise of "evolutionary ethics," the embrace toward ethical relativism, and the slide toward eugenics
• Christine Rosen, on how and why early 20th century American religious leaders encouraged eugenics in the name of moral progress
• Dana Gioia, on the decline in literary reading in America and on the cultural loss it signifies
• C. Ben Mitchell, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on why and how the Church should be more welcoming toward the elderly

Volume 71 Nov./Dec. 2004

• Peter Augustine Lawler, on Luther, Locke, liberty, and the American Founding Fathers
• David Koyzis, on the modern denial of objective meaning and the exaltation of individual will
• Roger Lundin, on the incarnational vision of Czeslaw Milosz
• Craig Gay, on how the nature of money affects our sense of attributing value to things
• Steven Rhoads, on Taking Sex Differences Seriously (and why it's hard to do so)
• R. Larry Todd, on the life and music of Felix Mendelssohn
• Roger Lundin, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on Czeslaw Milosz and the poetry of exile and modern boundlessness

Volume 72 Jan./Feb. 2005

• John Polkinghorne, on lessons for theology learned from the inductive nature of the work of science
• Francesca Aran Murphy, on the efforts of 20th-century Catholic and French philosopher Étienne Gilson to reconcile faith and reason
• James Hitchcock, on the history of the Supreme Court's decisions regarding religious practice and liberty
• Wilfred McClay, on Nathaniel Hawthorne's vision of the intractability of human failings and the possibilities of the American experiment
• Philip McFarland, on how Hawthorne's sensitivity to the darker side of human nature makes him perennially instructive
• David Hackett Fischer, on the history of how Americans have understood and symbolized freedom and liberty
• Wilfred McClay, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the theme of place and communal obligation in Nathaniel Hawthorne's writing

Volume 73 Mar./Apr. 2005

• Richard John Neuhaus et al., on the meaning and value of human life, the vocation of medicine, the logic of autonomous individualism, and the temptation of suicide and euthanasia
• Patrick Carey, on the perceptive (and peregrinating) thought of Orestes Brownson
• John W. O'Malley, on the prophetic, academic, humanistic, and artistic vectors of Western culture
• Patricia Owen, on what makes good children's books and on how the Newbery Medal winners have changed over time
• Susan Srigley, on the sacramental and incarnational fiction of Flannery O'Connor
• Ralph C. Wood, on Flannery O'Connor as "hill-billy Thomist" and sympathizer with backwoods religion

Volume 74 May/June 2005

• Russell Moore, on the struggles at Baylor University, "soul competency," and the Baptist culture of autonomy
• Brad Wilcox, on the characteristics of "soft patriarchy" in evangelical families
• Joseph E. Davis, on sexual abuse, how it is explained, and how a sense of identity is thereby formed
• Barrett Fisher, on the remarkable achievement of film producer Ismail Merchant
• Jeanne Murray Walker & Darryl Tippens, on overcoming the neglect of literature that highlights the spiritual dimension of human experience
• Paul Walker, on the life and music of English organist and composer Thomas Tallis, 1505-1585
• Paul Walker, from the bonus track of the CD edition, with more on Thomas Tallis

Volume 75 July/Aug. 2005

• Mark Malvasi, on John Lukacs, the meaning of the modern, and how to think about history
• John Lukacs, on the roles of curiosity and language in the vocation of historians
• Steve Talbott, on how communications technologies divert language from its richest possibilities
• Christian Smith, on the spiritual lives and theological assumptions of American teenagers
• Eugene Peterson, on the essential relationship between theology and spirituality, and on the narrative life of congregations
• Rolland Hein, on the life and imagination of George MacDonald

Volume 76 Sept./Oct. 2005

• D. H. Williams, on the Church's rootedness in its Tradition, and why some Protestants remain suspicious
• Catherine Edwards Sanders, on the spiritual hunger behind the rise of modern witchcraft
• Ted Prescott, on changing images of beauty and the human figure in 20th century art
• Martin X. Moleski, on the life, times, and remarkable insights of Michael Polanyi
• Stephen Prickett, on George MacDonald and the tasks of imagination
• Barrett Fisher, on the relative artistic assets of film and literature
• D. H. Williams, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the excluding character of Christian conversion

Volume 77 Nov./Dec. 2005

• Eric Miller, on the conserving radicalism and revolutionary traditionalism of Christopher Lasch
• Lisa de Boer, on the depiction of everyday humanity in northern European post-Renaissance painting
• Peter J. Schakel, on seeing The Chronicles of Narnia as fairy tales, not just Christian allegory
• Alan Jacobs, on how The Chronicles of Narnia reveal much of C. S. Lewis's thinking on almost everything, and on how Lewis's imagination was prepared to write such books

Volume 78 Jan./Feb. 2006

• Mark Bauerlein, on the causes of disengagement of college students from concern for intellectual and civic life
• Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, on television, children, and acquiring a sense of reality
• Sam Van Eman, on the view of the good life advanced by advertising
• Thomas de Zengotita, on Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It
• Eugene McCarraher, on how American management theory became an influential source of religious meaning and practice
• John Witte, Jr., on how law embodies a view of human nature, and why religious viewpoints have often been ignored
• Thomas de Zengotita, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on postmodern individualism and "reality" TV

Volume 79 Mar./Apr. 2006

• Carson Holloway, on why sociobiology and evolutionary psychology are inadequate bases for sustaining political ideals
• Peter Augustine Lawler, on why we are more than "individuals" narrowly defined
• Hadley Arkes, on the difference, in law, between evidence from social scientific data and moral truths
• Ben Witherington, III, on why The Da Vinci Code's implausible account of history seems credible to many people
• Christopher Shannon, on Ivan Illich (Medical Nemesis) and the loss of belief in the possibility that suffering can be meaningful
• Roger Lundin, on how nature and experience replaced revelation as a source of authority (and why they fail to serve as such)
• Roger Lundin, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the necessity of humility in the writing of biographies

Volume 80 May/June 2006

• Stephen A. McKnight, on The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought
• Tim Morris & Don Petcher, on science, Christology, and why segregating nature from supernature doesn't do justice to either
• Vigen Guroian, on the mystical character of fragrance and on why working in his garden is an imitation of the Master Gardener
• Paul Valliere, on Orthodox theology's engagement with questions concerning law, politics, and human nature, and on the ideas of Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900)
• Vigen Guroian, on the importance of personality and community in the thought of Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948)
• Calvin Stapert, on the affirmation of Creation and intimations of transcendence in the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Calvin Stapert, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the sense of resolution, completion, and the sense of the goodness of creation in Mozart's music

Volume 81 July/Aug. 2006

• Nigel Cameron, on the lack of ethical reflection in public policy on technology
• Joel James Shuman, on beliefs about God's nature and purposes informing how we think about sickness and medicine
• Brian Volck, on embodied life, stories, and how medical practice involves attending to the stories of the bodies of patients
• Russell Hittinger, on the modern state giving rise to modern Catholic social thought
• Mark Noll, on learning to think about law and politics from earlier Christians who lived in very different political circumstances
• Stephen Miller, on the factors that sustain the art of conversation, and why it's a dying art

Volume 82 Sept./Oct. 2006

• Stephen Gardner, on how modern culture weakens religion and establishes a new definition of the public
• Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, on Tom Wolfe and Philip Rieff's diagnosis of cultural disorder
• Wilfred McClay, on how Philip Rieff's brilliant critique of modern disorder kept him from realizing a way out of our dilemma
• David Wells, on how Western culture has eclipsed fundamental assumptions about human nature and God
• James K. A. Smith, on the postmodern insight that our experience in the world requires interpretation (and that some interpretations are better than others)
• Robert Littlejohn, on how education should encourage wisdom and eloquence in students
• James K. A. Smith, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the relationship between ideas and cultural change

Volume 83 Nov./Dec. 2006

• Barrett Fisher, on film noir and its revealing portrayal of human moral confusion
• Dick Keyes, on contemporary cynicism, how it's destructive, and how it might be resisted
• Richard Lints, on a distinctively theological approach to understanding human identity
• Paul McHugh, on how the discipline of psychiatry needs to mature, and on "stories" as diagnostic tools
• Paul Weston, on lessons from Lesslie Newbigin on interfaith dialogue and the attacks on Christianity from scientism
• Paul Walker, on how the forms of Renaissance choral music communicate rich theological concerns
• Dick Keyes, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on how the Bible encourages us to be suspicious in certain settings

Volume 84 Jan./Feb. 2007

• Harry R. Lewis, on higher education's amnesia about its purposes, and how that shortchanges students
• Nicholas Wolterstorff, on Abraham Kuyper (1837-1927), the French Revolution, worldviews, and "sphere sovereignty"
• Brendan Sweetman, on why religious worldviews should not be excluded from political life
• James Turner Johnson, on the development of Christian thought about the meaning of marriage
• David Martin, on how the 1960s replayed themes of the 1890s and 1930s
• Edward Ericson, Jr., on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's beginnings and legacy
• Harry R. Lewis, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on how colleges and universities can help students grow into adulthood

Volume 85 Mar./Apr. 2007

• C. John Sommerville, on how higher education, divorced from higher realities, has become socially irrelevant
• Catherine Albanese, on American "metaphysical religion," varieties of gnosticism, and the quest for spiritual energy
• Christopher Shannon, on how social scientists encouraged the rise of autonomous individualism in 20th-century America
• Michael G. Lawler, on the development of the idea of marriage as covenant in Roman Catholic thought
• Gilbert Meilaender, on lessons from Augustine in defining proper expectations for the Christian life
• Matthew Dickerson, on J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of stewardship of the earth
• Matthew Dickerson, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the glory of trees and the shepherdhood of ents

Volume 86 May/June 2007

• Roger Lundin, on why, after Vietnam, American literary critics forgot about American religion
• Lawrence Buell, on diverse visions of America and Nature
• Harold K. Bush, Jr., on the glorification of the American way as a civil religion
• Roger Lundin, on the transformation of the nature of belief in the late 19th century
• Katherine Shaw Spaht, on radical autonomy, marriage, divorce, and law
• Steven L. Nock, on how broadly shared cultural assumptions affect laws regulating marriage and divorce
• Norman Klassen & Jens Zimmermann, on how various dualisms affect our assumptions about faith, knowledge, and higher education
• Norman Klassen & Jens Zimmermann, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the Incarnation and humanism

Volume 87 Autumn 2007

• John Witte, Jr., on why law needs to be understood in the context of its relation with other practices and disciplines, including religion
• Steven Keillor, on discerning the presence of God’s judgment in historical events
• Philip Bess, on how New Urbanist ideas are rooted in a natural law framework
• Scott Cairns, on how the writing of poetry requires attentiveness to the life of words
• Anthony Esolen, on why Western literary critics need to understand Christian convictions
• Anthony Esolen, on ironies of time, power, and love at the heart of Christian belief
• John Witte, Jr., from the bonus track of the CD edition, on historical models for the relationship between Church and State

Volume 88 Nov./Dec. 2007

• Diana Pavlac Glyer, on how the members of The Inklings (C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, etc.) influenced each other’s thinking and writing
• Michael J. Lewis, on what the Body Worlds exhibits assembled by Gunther von Hagens reveal about our attitudes toward human nature
• Steve Talbott, on how the aims of education are distracted by technology
• Darryl Tippens, on why we sing
• Everett Ferguson, on the place of music in the Early Church
• Alexander Lingas, on the tradition of music in the Eastern churches
• Calvin Stapert, on the nature of meaning in music
• Diana Pavlac Glyer, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on Owen Barfield
• Michael J. Lewis, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the meaning of the body in Western art

Volume 89 Jan./Feb. 2008

• Jerome C. Wakefield, on how psychiatry began ignoring causes of mental suffering and so defined sadness as a disease
• Christopher Lane, on the complex characteristics of anxiety and the tendency to treat the absence of ease with drugs
• Dan Blazer, on why psychiatric disorders require attention to the story of patients' lives
• Fred Turner, on 1960s dreams of countercultural change and the rise of the Whole Earth Catalog
• Barrett Fisher, on the films of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, etc.)
• Thomas Hibbs, on the theme of the possibility of redemption in film noir, "neo-noir," and similar films
• Jerome C. Wakefield, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the role of drug companies in promoting new views of human well-being

Volume 90 Mar./Apr. 2008

• J. Mark Bertrand, on how the language of "worldviews" can mean something richer than it often does
• Michael P. Schutt, on how the day to day practice of Christian lawyers can reflect a Christian view of the nature of law
• Michael Ward, on how C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia were shaped by medieval cosmological beliefs about the seven planets
• Dana Gioia, on the disturbing trends in the reading (non)habits of Americans
• Makoto Fujimura, on reading, painting, and attending to the world
• Gregory Edward Reynolds, on lessons about reading from the study of media ecology
• Catherine Prescott, on why portrait painters often depict their subjects with books in their hands [CD and MP3 versions only]
• Eugene Peterson, on the place of reading in the spiritual lives of Christians