Protestantism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

A New Purity Culture

Samuel D. James

I grew up in evangelical purity culture. Well-thumbed copies of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Every Young Man’s…

The Protestant Mind

Dale M. Coulter

The following is an excerpt from the first edition of The Protestant Mind, a newsletter from First Things. We invite…

Introducing The Protestant Mind

Virginia Aabram

Though First Things is often viewed as mired in the Catholic side of things, the truth is…

The Evangelical Elite Gap (ft. Aaron Renn)

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Aaron Renn joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…

The Ones Who Didn’t Convert

John Duggan

Melanie McDonagh’s Converts, reviewed in First Things last month, allows us to gaze close-up at the extraordinary…

The Problem with the Jerusalem Statement Against Christian Zionism

Gavin D’Costa

On January 17, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in the Holy Land, including the Latin Rite…

An Anglican in the Dominican House

Matthew Barrett

At 9 p.m., when most of the world is preparing for bed, a sea of white habits…

Recovering a Christian World

R. R. Reno

We’ve lost touch with reality. Technology is certainly a factor. A few years ago, people on airplanes…

The Church of Sarah Mullally (ft. Damian Thompson)

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Damian Thompson joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…

A Baptist Cheer For Cultural Christianity

Daniel Darling

On 4 July 1776, the day the delegates to the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of…

Make Me A Lutheran

Richard Rex

John Fisher, the renowned Bishop of Rochester, is known to history chiefly for having been put to…

Christmas Spectacles, Good and Bad

Jillian Parks

This year marks the Radio City Rockettes’ one hundredth anniversary, and the annual Christmas Spectacular at Radio…

The Problem with the Evangelical Elite

Aaron M. Renn

The problem with the evangelical elite is that there isn’t one. All too few evangelical Christians hold…

While We’re At It

R. R. Reno

Anglicans refer to the last Sunday before Advent as “Stir Up” Sunday. This puzzled me as…

We Were Jesus Freaks

Trevin Wax

”Hey you, I’m into Jesus,” I sang, driving to school in my 1988 Buick Park Avenue, the…