In the World: Reading and Writing As a Christian

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ntroduction : reading and writing as a Christian -- Good writing : an introduction to rhetoric -- Invention -- Structuring the thesis -- Coherence -- Revision -- From working outline to outline -- Documentation -- Defining a worldview : religion. Dover beach / Matthew Arnold -- Why I am not a Christian / Bertrand Russell -- What Christians believe / C.S. Lewis -- Stages of faith and human becoming / James W. Fowler -- Who is in control? / M. Howard Rienstra -- Two ways of looking at God / Emily Dickinson -- Why I ran for Congress / Stephen V. Monsma -- Scars of honor / Dorothy M. Johnson --Living morally : ethics. On good and evil / Saint Augustine -- Why get married? / Lewis B. Smedes -- A quiet conversion / Cathy Stentzel -- The death of infant Doe : Jesus and the neonates, Mark 10:13-16 / Allen Verhey -- No man is an island / John Donne -- A place to stand / Henri J.M. Nouwen. Exercising stewardship : environmental issues. The historical roots of our ecological crisis / Lynn White -- No silent spring / Jay Van Andel -- But a watch in the night : a scientific fable / James C. Rettie -- The land ethic / Aldo Leopold -- Pisces / Hugh Cook -- The fixed / Annie Dillard -- Responding to science. Religion and science / Albert Einstein -- Natural selection / Charles Darwin -- The the trees clap their hands / Virginia Stem Owens -- "Faith" is a fine invention / Emily Dickinson -- In defense of pain / Philip Yancey -- Reading literature. Censorship and the nature of art / Plato -- Moral fiction / John Gardner --Novelist and believer / Flannery O'Connor -- The Christian reader / Nancy M. Tischler -- On evil in art / Thomas Howard -- Frater ave atique vale / Elva McAllaster -- Letter to a Christian artist / H.R. Rookmaaker -- Using language. The living Word : the Bible in translation -- A vital language / Henry Zylstra -- Pure poppycock / Kathryn Lindskoog. Profanity and realism / John Steinbeck -- Jordan [II] / George Herbert -- Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson -- Have you committed verbicide today? / D.G. Kehl -- Understanding ourselves in relation to society, education, and psychology. The empty manger : a Christmas story / Walter Wangerin -- The Templeton address : men have forgotten God / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- The liberal arts : what and why? / Arthur F. Holmes -- You're still failing / I.M. Cross -- Mr. Chips couldn't make it today / John J. Timmerman -- Long-distance compliments (from father to son) / Sietze Buning -- His path is in the sea / Lillian V. Grissen -- Toward understanding depression / Raymond Grissen -- Jesus will give you joy / John C. Blattner.