River

Charles Cameron

Water into wine,
wine into blood, blood into
love, love into light …

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Books & Culture September/October 2012 Issue

The Chain of Belonging

John G. Turner

Making Tea

Aaron Belz

Recommended Reading

Laura Bramon Good

Letters

The Face of the Nation

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

The Man Who Delivered the Computer

Alan Jacobs

The Unknown Solzhenitsyn

Edward E. Ericson, Jr.

Reliable Narrator

Alissa Wilkinson

Sisters at War

Betty Smartt Carter

A Many-Sided Man

Stephen H. Webb

Beyond the Law

Leslie Leyland Fields

The New History of Methodism

Bruce Hindmarsh

Signs & Wonders

Todd Buras

Christology, Christian Learning, and Christian Formation

Nicholas Wolterstorff

In the Soup

Peter T. Chattaway

Why Care?

Kendra Langdon Juskus

Color Blindness

Robert Elder

Why Religious Liberty Matters

Allen D. Hertzke

Itching Ears

Craig Noll

Neurohormonal Wars

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

In the Land of Ashes

Linda Buturian

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