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An Evangelical in Italy

Larry Smith
How does an evangelical—not joined with the Church in Rome, but committed to one holy, catholic, and ­apostolic church—live and worship…

The Post-Californian Ideology

Matthew Schmitz

On November 6, 1996, Al Gore called Peter Navarro to express his sympathy. Navarro, a left-leaning economics…

Paul’s Ethnic Gospel

James R. Wood

Grace, not race”—so goes the tidy maxim by which many modern interpreters characterize Paul’s gospel. In this…

The Right to Be Killed

Matthew Burdette

In the days surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., leaders of the civil rights movement…

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Obergefell Must Go

Robert P. George
Last week marked ten years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges—the case that invalidated state laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife…

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Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the…

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Between our physical demise—when the soul, like a savedpage from a trashed notebook, lifts in the handof…

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