Articles in this Issue
The Consecrated Heretic, Down Under
On Les Murray.
“Everything Will Be Made Right”
Reading “The Master and Margarita” for the first time.
A Spike to the Heart
Isaac Babel’s virtuosity.
Making All Things New
On Laura Ingalls Wilder.
More with Less
The stories of Joy Williams.
American Girl
Her name is Kenya.
Mass Murder and Mad Logic of Entitlement
On Anders Breivik.
“Every Single Thing in You Has to Bow Down”
A conversation with Christian Wiman.
Terminally Quirky
An exercise in the dominant period style.
“Don’t Take Jesters into Outer Space”
Wisława Szymborska, reluctant Nobel Laureate.
Why I Read Poetry
“Language under pressure.”
The Poet, the Scholar, and God
Helen Vendler’s idolatry.
Among the Hagarenes
Early Christian-Muslim encounters.
Here, Mr. Hoerth
A Wheaton freshman, 40+ years ago.
“The Dregs of Christendom”
A first-rate history of Baptists in America.
A Modern “Old-Time Religion”
Moody Bible Institute and corporate evangelicalism.
Hearts Strangely Warmed
The case for “reclaiming” Pietism.
O Canada
Liberal evangelicalism: a case study.
A World Without Shadows
Steven Weinberg on modern science.
Scientific or Sciencey?
Yeti, Nessie, et al.
All Called, Some Predestined
Calling a halt before the theological riddle is solved.
Enlarging the Imagination
A conversation with Shirley Mullen.
Morals Legislation, Revisited
Unintended consequences.
Coming of Age as an MK
A quietly powerful memoir.
The Perils and Power of Charity
Or, In Praise of Small Acts.
The Yeast of the Pharisees
Missionary shipwreck.
Mayfair Muslims
British converts, 1850-1950.