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Parents Can’t Fight Porn Alone
Madi grew up in a religious home, blessed with attentive parents who took the dangers of technology seriously. They installed filters on her devices and required her to hand...
Theology of Immigration
Speaking to a gymnasium full of high schoolers in 2015, Angela Merkel sought to explain why Germany needed to close its borders to the tide of Syrian refugees. She...
Want Stronger Families? Pay Workers More
Bear the standard for religious orthodoxy with First Things. Make your contribution to our 2023 spring campaign today at firstthings.com/donate. Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying...
Taking the Founders at Their Word
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics:Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Foundingby kody w. cooper and justin buckley dyercambridge, 225 pages, $99.99 For much of the...
Can Nationalism Unite Us?
The Case for Nationalism: How it Made Us Powerful, United, and Free by rich lowry broadside books, 288 pages, $26.99 Since the election of Donald Trump, “nationalism” has become...
A Sloppy Attack on National Conservatism
A great deal of ink has been spilt in recent months about the “new nationalism” taking hold in American politics. Last week, an impressive line-up of theologians joined the...
The Uncertain Future of Protestantism
Last Tuesday, leading representatives of different models of conservative American Protestantism gathered at Biola University to discuss and debate the “Future of Protestantism.” Peter Leithart, an ecumenically-oriented apostle of...
