Articles in this Issue
Defining “Evangelical”
Part 1 in an occasional series.
Our Shared Brokenness
On mass incarceration.
You Are (Not) What You Wear
Clothes and the culture wars.
Murder at the MLA
An escape into reality.
How Tom Grew
The formative years of T. S. Eliot.
My Date with Mary Oliver
A memorable evening in Santa Barbara.
Finding Joy
The first full life of Joy Davidman in a generation.
Decidedly Odd
A long-awaited biography of Charles Williams.
Do Not Enter!
David Mitchell’s pendant to ‘The Bone Clocks’.
“Christian Revolutionary Love.”
The Kingdom of God in East London.
An Ethiopian Saint
The life of Walatta Petros.
Women and the Ironies of Providence
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.
The Long History of Human Rights
Assessing an influential revisionist account.
Attrition: The “Bleak Strategy” of World War I
Terrible, yes; not pointless.
Enmity & Loss, Love & Hope
The Force is real.
The Call of the Nightingale
Majid Majidi’s films are love-songs to God.
“Other Baptists”
A generous orthodoxy.
“Dangerous and Suspect Men”
Clerical celibacy in France, 1720-1815.
On the Hammock, Reading About Wilderness Wanderings
Hiking as a spiritual practice.
The Counter-Desecration Phrasebook
On Robert Macfarlane.
The Critic’s Job and Why It Matters
Appreciating an art in its own right.