| Correspondence: Alice McDermott, Andrew Greeley & more | 4 |
| Editorial: Something new | 5 |
| Et Cetera: A pathological condition | 6 |
| Splitting hairs | 7 |
| Callahan, Daniel | |
| We, the jury | 9 |
| Vitullo-Martin, Julia | |
| Continuing the conversation: Theologians: young & older | 11 |
| Pope, Stephen J. | |
| Digging for Summer: 1986 | 12 |
| Donaghy, Daniel | |
| Continuing the conversation: Theologians: young & older | 13 |
| Oakes, Edward T. | |
| Continuing the conversation: Theologians: young & older | 14 |
| Ruddy, Christopher | |
| TRADING UP | 15 |
| Mandle, Jay R. | |
| States of Mind | 18 |
| O'Gorman, Ned | |
| Keeping the Faith/The Virgin Suicides Gladiator | 19 |
| Baumann, Paul | |
| Teaching Sex | 21 |
| Moran, Jeffrey P. | |
| The Death of Character | 22 |
| Hunter, James Davison | |
| My Staggerford Journal | 24 |
| Hassler, Jon | |
| The Power of Kings | 25 |
| Monod, Paul Kléber | |
| Religion booknotes | 27 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. | |
| Never say die | 31 |
| Elie, Paul |
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