Volume 19 Number 1

Issue Date: 
January, 2008

Features

True Education Liberates
By: Rollin A. Lasseter
"Oh, you’re a liberal-arts major. What are you going to do, teach?" Liberal-arts degree holders are familiar with contemporary assumptions about the practical value of such an education. But understood in the traditional sense, the liberal arts have very little to do with matching skills to job. Instead they are about fostering the individual’s ability to reason and participate in society. The aim of a genuinely liberal education is freedom.
The Sin of Sloth
By: Leon J. Suprenant
"The devil finds things for idle hands to do." We’ve all heard that cautionary saying in one form or another. But as it turns out, the Deadly Sin of sloth doesn’t apply merely to hammock-reclining loafers: The achievement-obsessed careerist is just as culpable. We are guilty of sloth whenever we fail to give God the time, attention, and resources he deserves.
Former Anglican Clergymen Bolster British Catholicism
By: Joanna Bogle
In 1992 the Church of England voted to allow the ordination of women. The resultant furor prompted many to cross the Tiber to Catholicism. Among these were a number of Anglican priests (and a few bishops) who were led to pastor new flocks, as well as others who turned their influence to the laity. What do their experiences of the English Church in subsequent years tell us about the future of Christianity in Britain?
Loaves and Fishes
By: Steve Ray
We know the story: Jesus transformed a handful of bread and fish into enough food for a multitude . . . didn’t he? A contemporary spin on a miracle described in all four Gospels offers a squishier version: Jesus taught the people—who brought their own food—to share with others. But the story of God’s miraculous intervention in the natural world has endured for 2,000 years. Here’s why.

Departments

Reasons for Hope
The Measure of Success
By: Cherie Peacock
Letters
*This Rock* Got Me Through Seminary
Damascus Road
Episcopal Clergyman Discovers True Home
By: Chris Findley
By the Book
Latter-day Saints and the "Great Apostasy"
By: Tim Staples
Eyes to See
Ugly as Sin
By: Michael Schrauzer
Truth be Told
The Popess Who Just Won’t Go Away
By: Robert P. Lockwood
Last Writes
One-Way Ticket
By: Karl Keating

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