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St. John the Wonderworker
Chosen wonderworker and pleaser of Christ, who pours forth inexhaustible streams of inspiration and a multitude of…
Trouble in Bakersfield
Yesterday, Chad Vegas, a good friend of mine and the Reformed Baptist pastor in Bakersfield, California emailed…
Iowa’s Law-Gospel Dialectic
Christians have for some time been concerned about a perceived shift in the language of Washington from…
Human Rights and the Pan-Orthodox Council
Last week, the Eastern Orthodox Church, a communion of 14 autocephalous, national churches with roots in the…
Willow Sunday
Among my first memories in this wondrous world were brittle palm fronds folded reverently behind the four…
What Would a Reform Agenda Look Like?
On this 240th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, our beloved country is, alas, in trouble and…
Alone in the Garden?
A dozen years ago, historian Mark Noll and I published a volume of essays—papers that had been…
Teleology in the Digital Age
Most accounts of the digital revolution make it sound like we are being turned (or should turn)…
Liberalism’s Paradox
Domenico Losurdo’s “counter-history” of Liberalism is a long riff on a central paradox: Many of the founding…
Pope Francis in Armenia
Last weekend, Pope Francis made an apostolic journey to Armenia, a small, landlocked country of three million…
Sacramental Warfare
William Johnstone (1 & 2 Chronicles, Volume 1) argues that the Chronicler depicts Israel’s warfare as “sacramental.”…
Anti-Progressive Heresy
A faith has been shaken, illusions shattered, pieties punctured,” writes Damon Linker at The Week. The faith…
New Testament Family Values
To Roman pagans, Judaism was a solvent of the bonds linking religion, household, and polity. Tacitus wrote,…
Persecutor to Apostle
Paul’s Damascus road conversion from persecutor of the church to apostle is well-known. His life story figures…
Too Much Bible?
Evangelicals have long been dismissed by Catholics, Orthodox, and confessional or mainline Protestants as “biblicists.” Evangelicals are…
