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No “Cool,” No “Awesome”
Midway through his memoir of religion in America from the fifties forward, Ken Woodward recalls that some…
Regionalism
Derek Rishmawy is on to me. In a charitable review of The End of Protestantism, he sees…
The Ark’s Ascension
The Chronicler’s account of David bringing the ark of the covenant to Zion takes up several chapters…
The Pope, Protestantism, and Reformation
The recent visit of Pope Francis to the Cathedral of Lund was an historic occasion. The Holy…
The Failure of the Conservative Intellectuals
The conservative intellectuals have failed. Have you heard? Everyone’s saying it. The first thing to remember is…
Political educator
Our friends at The New Criterion have graciously allowed us this preview of a complementary article from…
Paedocommunion, the Gospel, and the Church, IV
The thesis here is: Inclusion in the sacraments is a necessary privilege of membership in the covenant…
Dylan’s Nobel in Perspective
The awarding of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan has provoked enthusiasm and dismay…
Influencing the World
Summarizing Russell Moore’s 2016 Erasmus Lecture, Rod Dreher writes: Moore is “saying that the best way to…
Paedocommunion, the Gospel, and the Church, III
Paedocommunion not only implies that the church is the new Israel, but that the church is the…
Who was Jack T. Chick, Rabid Zealot or Misguided Cartoonist?
Jack T. Chick, the infamous genius who published almost 900 million “Chick Tracts” (comic-book style religious pamphlets),…
Ashes to Ashes
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: 1:25 Editor Rusty Reno comments on the Vatican’s new…
6 Thoughts on “Voting the Christian Way”
This year’s election season has provided unusually bright flashpoints of conflict and rhetoric. Every four years, Americans…
Death and the Reformation
Earlier this month I was in Wittenberg, reporting on the World Seminaries Conference of the International Lutheran…
Paedocommunion, the Gospel, and the Church, II
All paedobaptists agree that the church is the new Israel, formed as the body of the Risen…
