Articles in this Issue
Of Poetry and Polyspermy
The natural history of human reproduction.
Stranger in a Strange Land: The Scandal of Arming America.
A prizewinning work of history doesn’t stand up to examination.
Letters
The Church on the World’s Turf
The Warden of Time and Space
Part 3: Summing Newton up.
A Geography of Reading
Why the WTO protestors had it wrong
Not First in Words but in Flesh
Language and truth in the Christian literary tradition
Is Globalization Christian?
Why the WTO protestors had it wrong.
Maya Mysteries
There’s power in the blood in the ruins of Copán
Tolkien Canonized
Should the creator of the Lord of the Rings be acknowledged as the foremost author of the twentieth century?
Muhammad Through Christian Eyes
Demonic charlatan or moral exemplar? The church’s mixed response to Islam’s prophet.
All Shook Up
The inner world of early Pentecostals
The Beauty of Borrowing
Contemporary artists in dialogue with the past
They Don’t Write Them Like That Anymore
Really? Richard Rodgers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the fate of American musical theater.
Let’s Get Personal
Yes, the church needs to get past modernity’s impersonal techniques. But adding the prefix post doesn’t solve anything
The Female Body Politic
Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy
The Prophet’s Pulpit
A conversation with Patrick Gaffney illumines the world of Muslim believers—what they have in common; what divides them—and the varieties of Islamic preaching
Kandahar
Mixing fiction and documentary, a film from Iran explores the Taliban’s heart of darkness.