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Sodom and Jericho
Before Joshua begins the battle at Jericho, he encounters “a man” with a sword who identifies himself…
Civil Righteousness and the Gospel in the American Church
In Democracy in America, Tocqueville discusses what he thought was a strength of American Christianity—and it is…
Richard Swinburne on Sex, Family, and Life
A controversy has erupted in the past week over responses to a keynote delivered by Richard Swinburne…
Laodicean Water
Since at least the early 20th century, commentators have claimed that the messages to the seven churches…
Between the Capitals of the World
Today, I took my last train ride to Grand Central Terminal, on my way to the New…
What We’ve Been Reading—9.30.16
Mark Bauerlein Mark Helprin’s The Pacific and Other Stories is the book. It is a powerful grouping…
The Podcast Is On Vacation
Back and better than ever next week. Till soon!
A Distinction without Discipline
Every time someone tries to defend communion for the divorced and remarried, the reform they are proposing…
The Unpopular Popular Humanities
Many years ago, a distinguished English professor and department chairman at an Ivy League school told me…
It’s the Theology, Stupid
Thomas Small doesn’t think Hugh Kennedy’s Caliphate gives enough attention to the theological roots of the Caliphate.…
Get Ready to Rumble
Early in his To Change the World, James Davison Hunter counters simplistic Christian understanding of cultural change…
Advertising and Alienation
Ray Oldenburg’s The Great Good Place is a brief for the “third place,” a place that is…
Jesus v. Hercules
In The Clash of Gods (6-8), Thomas Mathewes describes the “staggering” revolution that took place in late…
Jane Jacobs at 100
To celebrate the centenary of Jane Jacobs’s birth, Adam Gopnik devotes a New Yorker piece to the…
Rooting out Burrowers
Several weeks ago, I devoted my FT column to examining the Obama administration’s effort to consolidate its…
