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To Change the World, Reconsidered: A Review Article

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, by James Davison Hunter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, x + 358 pages, $27.95.

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The Past, Present, and Future Work of Christian Education in the Orthodox...

Prior to the formation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC),[1] Christian education was on the minds of many supporters of J. Gresham Machen in the Presbyterian conflict. In a series of articles...

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Kindle: A New Horseless Carriage? An Assessment

Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6 inch display with free 3-G wireless) by Amazon. Seattle, Wash.: Amazon, 2010, $259.00 ($189.00 as of June; with only Wi-Fi wireless, $139.00).

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Editorial

From the Editor. This month features the second in a series of articles that I have invited the general secretaries of our three program committees to write for this issue each year. Danny Olinger has...

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Dr. Robert B. Strimple: A Tribute

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the reception of the Rev. Dr. Robert Benson Strimple into the ministry of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. It also marks...

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The One Certainty

VANITY of vanities, the Preacher saith,All things are vanity. The eye and earCannot be filled with what they see and hear.Like early dew, or like the sudden breathOf wind, or like the grass that...

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The Unaccommodated Reformation: A Review Article

Getting the Reformation Wrong: Correcting Some Misunderstandings, by James R. Payton, Jr. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2010, xxi + 272 pages, $23.00, paper.

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The Huguenot Christian, Part 1

The European Reformation and the Huguenots

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A Primer on Vatican II

In the last major review article[1] written before his death in early 2009, former Missouri-Synod Lutheran minister turned Roman Catholic priest Richard John Neuhaus examined two books about the...

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Editorial

From the Editor. Poor John Knox. He just doesn't get the respect his mentor John Calvin gets. Perhaps it is because his birth date is not certain, but believed to be 1510. So for this Reformation month...

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Preachers in Lab Coats and Scientists in Geneva Gowns

Introduction

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Editorial

From the Editor. Christians, and especially ministers, have often donned lab coats in our culture's debates over evolution and creation, and spoken authoritatively in disciplines about which they know...

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Intelligent Dissent: A Review Article

Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, edited by William A. Dembski. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2004, xxvii + 366 pages, $28.00, paper.

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Two Kingdoms: A New or Old Idea? A Review Article

David VanDrunen. Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: A Study in the Development of Reformed Social Thought. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010, 476 pages, $35.00, paper.

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The Huguenot Christian, Part 2: The Church in New Rochelle

It was quite appropriate for New Rochelle to be named after its French sister city since fifteen of the forty-two original families in New Rochelle were natives of La Rochelle, and fifteen more...

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Dis-integrated?: The Social Network: A Review Article

My interest in The Social Network is not as a movie reviewer—because I'm not one, although I enjoy well-crafted films—but as a media ecologist. This is my principal interest in the movie; and the movie...

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The Church-Integrated Family

We are at the beginning of the end of the American family as it has been known for generations and generations. As I've discussed this over the years with other pastors, we can no longer assume...

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Editorial

From the Editor. With the depredation of marriage and the family in American culture it is perhaps to be expected that there will be a backlash. Sadly, in some quarters of the church a new...

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Review: God's Thandabantu

God's Thandabantu: The Man Who Loved the People, by J. Cameron Fraser. Belleville, Ontario, Canada: Guardian Books, 2010, 70 pages, $7.50, paper.

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Covenant Blessings for Singles

Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who...

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