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Volume 14, Issue 5:
God Rest Ye Merry Hostages:
Let Nothing You Dismay
Masthead
Thema: Mary Bursting
Douglas Jones marvels at the explosion that is Christmas. Lights are futile, but necessary.
"
Christmas is impossible. It can't be done. That woman won't
be silent. It can't be expressed. Encapsulate all the colors, meanings, music,
and history of World War II into one sentence, commas permitted. Now do
it with a far more earth-shattering, far more complicated, more
unspeakable event. That's the tension of
Christmas."
The Supporting Cast:
Sharpening Iron: Letters to the Editor
From Us, From You
The Cretan Times: New News
Douglas Jones
Presbyterion: On Church Government
Christmas and the Church - Douglas Wilson
Musica: On Perky Tunes
Dancing With the Angels - Duck Schuler
Husbandry: For Husbands
Crown of Her Husband - Douglas Wilson
Femina: For Wives
Christmas Worldliness - Nancy Wilson
Childer: On Childrearing
Christmas and Children - Douglas Wilson
Flotsam: Jetsam
Chocolate Hot - Nathan Wilson
Tohu: Bohu
(In)Tolerance - Jared Miller
Virga: On Discipline
Confused Tactics - Matt Whiltling
Liturgia: on Worrship
Baptism and the "Real Me" - Peter Leithart
Recipio: Taking Back Culture
Big Words - Ben Merkle
Doctrine 101: Basic Christian Teaching
Eschatology and the Gospel - Patch Blakey
Historia : On History
Of Worlds and Places - Chris Schlect
Meander: A River in Greece
Thick-fingered Typing- Douglas Wilson
Ex Libris
Some Books - Woelke Leithart
Cave of Adullam: Mutterings Regnant
Rory Borealis
Eschaton: Finale
Cutural Optimism - Jack Van Deventer
Footnotes, Etc.: Where We Got All This
Our Wonderful Sources
Fiction:
Similitudes: Stories with a Point
Deep Waters Run Still - Douglas Wilson
"Cassiodorus walked with Andrew out to edge of the short lawn in front of his vast library, and they looked over the precipice
together. The next level was about a hundred feet below where they
were standing, but it was not a garden at all, but rather a deep pool
of water."
Pictura: A Story, not too Long
The Widow's Mite - Douglas Wilson
"
I had been in a thousand places like this. The wallpaper was
a rough brown texture, with a cross-hatch pattern in it, and in the
corner was a pseudo-fireplace with some pseudo-logs in it. But the gas
was real, and I could feel the heat from the flames where I was sitting."