Articles in this Issue
Planetary Influences
The hidden meaning of the Chronicles of Narnia.
Provisional Conclusions
A conversation with poet Stephen Dunn.
Transmutation
How alchemy contributed to the emergence of modern science.
“I yet Not I”
Charismatic Christians in Venezuela and Ghana.
Maya Presbyterians
Max Weber was wrong about disenchantment.
To Hell and Back
Why the Civil War was fought, and how it changed American death.
A Chaplain’s War
The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell.
“Both Read the Same Bible”
Mark Noll on the Civil War as a theological crisis.
For the Birds
What are we looking for?
“To Be Young Was Very Heaven”
The poetic friendship of Wordsworth and Coleridge.
The Good City
Designed for walking.
The Old Man and the Woods
A prizewinning novel from Norway.
The Old World Order
Churchill’s troublesome young men.
“Unfinished Business”
The background and afterlife of the Gettysburg Address.
What’s Democracy For?
The Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Tricksters and Badmen
Burt Williams, Stagolee, and Jim Crow.
Music on the Brain
Oliver Sacks investigates.
Jerome, in the Library, with a Pen
A Christian scholar at work.
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich raises eyebrows, demurely.
Holy Hegemony!
A visit to Branson.
Good Listener
Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith.
What Was It You Wanted
Bob Dylan and Jesse James
Fathers and Sons
On Francis Schaeffer, Frank Schaeffer, and Crazy for God.