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Genocide in Gaza?

Gerald McDermott

The Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, was, according to British historian Andrew Roberts, “one of the largest terror attacks in history,” leaving 1182 dead and more...

The New Divide in Global Anglicanism

Gerald McDermott

For the last fifty years the Anglican Communion has been divided over the doctrine of marriage. That came to an end in April 2023 when Global South Anglicans declared...

Jesus in Eden

Gerald McDermott

At the end of his life, the American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) was working on a massive summa that would show the beauty of the Triune God afresh. Edwards’s...

The Devil’s Face in Gaza

Gerald McDermott

Last week in Israel I saw the aftermath of diabolical barbarism. That is, what was left behind after Satan’s face appeared. I joined a group of Christian leaders, hosted...

Divinity Schools and Diversity

Gerald McDermott

Imagine if someone claimed that Jesus was a capitalist. He might point to Jesus’s parable of the talents, where he says the man with one talent should have invested...

A Lonely Hart

Gerald McDermott

David Bentley Hart is fun to tangle with. When you disagree with him, you get treated to sesquipedalian name-calling. You also learn new things about yourself. In my case, I have...

Hart’s Turn To Heterodoxy

Gerald McDermott

Tradition and Apocalypse:An Essay on the Future of Christian Beliefby david bentley hartbaker academic, 208 pages, $24.99 David Bentley Hart was once the darling of postliberal theologians for his...

Woke Theory at Evangelical Colleges

Gerald McDermott

Parents from Biden-voting areas such as Westchester County (NY), Maricopa County (AZ), and northern Virginia have been protesting the teaching of critical race theory in their public schools. They...

False Race Narratives

Gerald McDermott

Fault Lines:The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastropheby voddie t. baucham, jr.salem books, 270 pages, $24.99 Several years ago I sent a manuscript on race to an evangelical...

Wanted: Pastors with Courage

Gerald McDermott

Pastors have many reasons to be afraid in these troubled times. COVID has divided their congregations between those who want to reopen the churches and those who think that...

Race and Redemption

Gerald McDermott

The death of George Floyd has shaken our nation’s foundations. Our churches are rightly trying to respond with compassion. But in pursuing that admirable goal, many church leaders and...

Death at Tree of Life

Gerald McDermott

On Saturday, October 27, 46-year-old Robert Gregory Bowers shot eleven Jews dead and wounded nine at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. As he started his twenty-minute shooting spree, Bowers...

Is Pope Francis a Liberal Protestant?

Gerald McDermott

Is the pope Catholic?” For at least a century, this was the way we Anglicans joked about anything that seemed too obvious to state. Now we must ask in...

Are Mormons Actually Moving Closer to Orthodoxy?

Gerald McDermott

Are Mormons moving closer to Orthodoxy? According to Richard Mouw, retired president of Fuller Seminary, they are. In an article in this May’s issue of First Things, he points...

The Most Objectionable Part of the Bible

Gerald McDermott

We all hear about the supposed “God of Wrath” in the Hebrew Bible, and the supposed “God of Love” of the New Testament. Those who draw that distinction don’t...