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With the death of the New Atheist industrial complex, a new variety of religion-friendly intellectual discourse has gradually taken its place in the public square. Jordan Peterson’s meteoric rise...

When the agnostic Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch died, he asked that his funeral be conducted in St. Peter’s Church in Zurich. But certain conditions applied: The service would...

Catholic Twitter recently enjoyed a rare moment of unity when Labour MP Chris Coghlan used the platform to announce his own excommunication. The politician had been warned by his...

In a scene from the 1961 British neo-noir film Victim, four gay men are having a conversation about private morality and public norms. All of them are being extorted...

In the annals of our military chaplaincy, many priests have distinguished themselves with high honor. But few lived and died as memorably as Fr. Lawrence Edward Lynch—a man so...

Corey DeAngelis, a prominent right-wing school choice activist, was recently fired from the Betsy DeVos-backed American Federation for Children following the exposure of his past participation in gay-for-pay “adult” films. (He...

Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda by megan basham broadside books, 352 pages, $32.99 Sometimes, a book comes along that creates irreconcilable differences between sociopolitical...

The National Conservatism Conference has always featured an array of Judeo-Christian politicians, clergy, and lobbyists. But this year, Hindu nationalism made its debut at NatCon with speeches by Ram...

Sixty years after the death of C. S. Lewis, his bibliography remains a daunting benchmark for anyone aspiring to the title of “Christian public intellectual.” But few people know...

In 2018, Wesley Hill published a report in First Things on a movement that claimed to be breaking new ground in the Christian discourse around faith and sexuality. It was the inaugural year...

Last July, I published a piece here on the desperate plight of “detransitioners”—men and women who regret their sex-change surgeries and have boldly chosen to speak up for themselves...

Evangelical magazine news rarely draws mainstream attention. Last year’s New York Times coverage of the split between Marvin Olasky and World was a notable exception. It was a well-worn...

Nothing about the small non-denominational church service made sense to the young boy. At his old Quaker church, they didn’t have this strange ritual where you passed around a...

There are many memorable moments in Matt Walsh’s provocative new documentary What is a Woman? But perhaps the most chilling is when Walsh sits down with Scott (Kellie) Newgent,...

My childhood house is a little big for the neighborhood. It sits on the corner of two streets, a roomy red ranch among smaller ranches and Cape Cods. A...