ABOUT THIS ISSUE: January/February 1996

ARTICLE: Japan’s Faithful Judas

SIDEBAR: The Left-behind Jesus

ARTICLE: Science and Religion in the Era of William James

ARTICLE: Grace in the Ghetto

EXCERPT: Ingenuity’s Outcasts

ARTICLE: L.A. Without Angeles

ARTICLE: In the Names of the Fathers

ARTICLE: The Mismeasure of Evangelicals

ARTICLE: Clockwork Origins?

ARTICLE: Shadows of the Mind

ARTICLE: A Social History of Truth

ARTICLE: The Man Who Heard Voices

ARTICLE: A Word in Season

ARTICLE: Serpent on the Rock

IN BRIEF

EDITOR’S NOTE

READINGS: New Bank Merger

READINGS: A Big-Enough God

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Philip Yancey on Shusaku Endo

Books & Culture January/February 1996 Issue

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A Social History of Truth

By David N. Livingstone

The Man Who Heard Voices, Part 1

By Alan Jacobs

Clockwork Origins? Part 3

By Ric Machuga

Clockwork Origins? Part 2

By Ric Machuga

Clockwork Origins? Part 1

By Ric Machuga

EDITOR'S NOTE

By John Wilson, Managing Editor

Japan's Faithful Judas, Part 2

By Philip Yancey

Japan's Faithful Judas, Part 1

By Philip Yancey

In Brief: January 01, 1996

LETTERS

Gary Dorsey

A Word in Season

By Roger Olson

Shadows of the Mind

By William Hasker

The Mismeasure of Evangelicals

In the Names of the Fathers

By Mark Noll

L.A. Without Angels

By Stefan Ulstein

Ingenuity's Outcasts

Jonathan Kozol

Grace in the Ghetto

By Dick Staub

The Left-behind Jesus

Science and Religion in the Era of William James

By Phillip Johnson

New Bank Merger

Calvin Trillin

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