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essays
The Scientist’s Finger
Thomas Cathcart
Arrested Development:
The Films of Kenneth Lonergan
Fredrick Barton
Brain Memoirs:
Thinking About Thinking
Harold K. Bush

 

in luce tua
An Advent Fast
James Paul Old

 

the arts
film: The Knight of Faith and The Dark Knight
Ross Moret
music: Turn That Stuff Down:
The Need for Silence in Music
Jennifer Forness
fiction: No Truth or Reconciliation:
Patrick Flanery’s Absolution
Joanne Myers

 

religion
being lutheran: Toward a Theology of Zombies
A. Trevor Sutton
life together: Theologies of Academic Freedom
Lake Lambert
pulpit & pew: Insecurity
Thomas C. Willadsen

 

public affairs
ethics: The Election Issue That Wasn’t, But Should Have Been
Geoffrey C. Bowden
nation: The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Revisited, or Pride Goeth Before a Fall
H. David Baer

 

verse
Desire
Brent Newsom
Saturday: Animated Cherry
Becca J. R. Lachman
Rumble Strip
Sarah Wells
Building
Marjorie Maddox
Thin Places
Mary M. Brown
Slivers
Jennifer Hurley
During Exodus
Steven Walters
On the Poets
 

 

books
Revelations
  by Elaine Pagels
Don W. Davis
rose