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essays
Are We Still of Any Use?
The Audacious Hope of the Engaged Scholar
Charles Marsh
The Terrible Pangs of Compromise:
Racial Reconciliation in African-American Literature
Trudier Harris

 

in luce tua
Still Seeking the Beloved Community
James Paul Old

 

public affairs
citizenship: Time Machines: Seeing Ourselves in Downton Abbey
David Lott
nation: Why Europe Matters
H. David Baer

 

the arts
fiction: A Study in Contrasts: Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder
Jennifer L. Miller
music: The Beach Boys’ Cheshire Smile
J. D. Buhl

 

religion
being lutheran: Pietas and a Christian University
Gilbert Meilaender
pulpit & pew: Bedroom Evangelism
Paul Koch
life together: A Carpenter’s Coffin
Joel Kurz

 

verse
New Life, Lake Scituate
Jeffrey Galbraith
My Crocuses
Charles R. Strietelmeier
She Visits Me
Leslie Williams
I Have Let Things Slip
Leslie Williams
The Neighbor
John Poch
Etymology
David Harrity
On the Poets
 

 

books
Framing the Secular: A Review Essay
Matthew Lundin
rose