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EDITORIAL

Letter to the Editor: December 2015

California Über Alles... The Supreme Court's Full-Nudal Effrontery... Opting Out of Civil Marriage... The Devil Is in the Distinctions... A Sick Inversion... Live & Let Live: It's as Simple as That... Unusual... Shameful & Evil... Fascinating & Accurate

The News You May Have Missed

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Crossed Out... Switch Kickers... What Makes #Ahmed Tick?... A Loud Song Unto the Lord... Barker's Biblical Blunder... Wrong Again, Skip to My Lou... One Man's Trash... Inclusion Confusion... The Wedding Feast

New Oxford Notes: December 2015

Welcome to the Battlefield... Is Benedict to Blame?

The Virgin Birth: Where Science Meets Scripture

PUTTING JESUS TO THE DNA TEST

Maria Hsia Chang

Whereas the results of a DNA test of a famous person such as Jesus normally would be published in a major scientific journal, not so the results of this DNA test.

Crossing the Chasm of Faith & Praxis

THE DO-NOTHING CHURCH IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR

Chene Richard Heady

The late-twentieth-century Catholic Church didn't mean ill; she was simply too exhausted to bother her members much.

Invasion of the Empty Universals

TECHNOLOGY IN THE HOUSE OF GOD

Paul Malocha

The lack of a stable liturgical model from some golden age does not mean that the things of every culture and age are equally suitable for solemn liturgy.

Reading Lettered Ecosystems

HILL COUNTRY EAST OF BETHEL — PART I

Will Hoyt

At an abandoned Ohio farmhouse I knew our search was done. What I didn't know was the land we had chosen was situated by a wasteland that had no precedent.

Ecumenism of Blood: Persecution’s Fruit?

Christopher Beiting

As much as we assume Christianity's home is Europe, the reality is that, in its first few centuries, Christianity was far more Middle Eastern than European.

Briefly: December 2015

Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square