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Advent/Christmas 2007
Volume LXXI
Number 2
Advent
essays

 

Articles available in our print edition.

in luce tua
How Not to Choose a President
James Paul Old

 

literature and the arts
film: Quagmire
Fredrick Barton
rereading old books: The Minister's Wooing
Harold K. Bush Jr
music: "The Grandest and Loveliest of All Spectacles"
Linda Ferguson

 

religion
being lutheran: Altared States
George C. Heider
pulpit & pew: Sabbatical Surprise
Thomas Willadsen
vocation: Christian Vocation and the Origins of Jack Daniels Whiskey
Lake Lambert

 

public affairs
nation: Prospects for Patriotism?
Peter Meilaender
law: Reprising Brown vs. Board of Education
Marie A. Failinger
life together: Recovering a Sense of Place
Jeanne Heffernan Schindler

 

verse
Baker
Jeanne Murray Walker
Schatz, The Last Day
Lois Reiner
Messages
Jeanne Murray Walker
Nearness
Harlan Bjornstad
Q&A
Paul Willis

 

books

 

the attic
History as Law and Gospel-II
Jaroslav Pelikan