The latest edition of First Things magazine, soon to be available online, contains an important piece by Princeton sociologist of religion Robert Wuthnow, “In Polls We Trust.” Actually, it’s one of the most important pieces on American religion I’ve read in quite a while. Not for what it . . . . Continue Reading »
On Pope Francis’s recent visit to La Paz, Bolivia, he received an unusual—and many would say, offensive—gift. Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, presented Pope Francis with a wooden crucifix made of a hammer and sickle. A video shows Pope Francis considering the gift . . . . Continue Reading »
The Great Accumulation: A Review of The Ransom of the Soul, by Peter Brown
Karl Shuve, Hedgehog Review
The Garbage Man Who Would Be King
Matthew Schmitz, American Interest
Behind the Scenes with Dwight Eisenhower, Billy Graham, and the Makers of American Civil Religion
John G. Turner, Christianity Today
What Finland Can Teach America About Baseball
Brian Costa, Wall Street Journal
Many Christians feel homesick for a day when they could be fully Christian in public. A rejection of the Christian faith is solidifying in our laws. The implicit primacy of Christian faith which has spanned centuries in the West is fading. The modern-day followers of Christ cry out as in Palestine . . . . Continue Reading »
Very recently, I was at a conference where Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Gergis, two of the nation’s foremost intellectual champions of marriage, spoke about marriage post-Obergefell (confession: Ryan and Sherif are close friends).Something about their address moved me. I realized that we’re back . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently received an email from a reader. She's aware of the Marriage Pledge, the initiative formulated by Ephraim Radner and Christopher Seitz that called for Christian ministers to set aside their civil authority to sign government marriage licenses. The purpose of this pledge is to clarify . . . . Continue Reading »
If we are unclear as to the authority for our cultural transformative efforts, we run the risk of being transformed ourselves by the very culture we hope to change. In which case, there will be little difference between Niebuhr's “Christ transforming culture” and “Christ of culture.” Continue Reading »
How did you meet?Well, it was sort of . . . there wasn’t one moment, exactly. We were kind of in the same friend circles, and she was like one of those people who was around and I was sort of aware—Snickermuffin, do you . . . ? Yeah no, something like that.How long have you been together?I . . . . Continue Reading »
Unclimbable
Eva Holland, SB Nation
Augustine vs. Eminem: The Current Cultural Empasse
Mark Judge, Acculturated
Farewell to the House of Commons: Last Words From Departing MPs
Aaron Wherry, MacLeans
The Forgotten Village: Revisiting Steinbeck's California
Gabriel Thompson, Virginia Quarterly Review
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