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Unity and Independence
In the aftermath of last week’s vote in Great Britain to leave the European Union, First Things…
Risking Roots
Hope Jahren’s memoir of a life in science, Lab Girl, has three sections: “Roots and Leaves”; “Wood…
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”
I spent last Thursday evening in Manhattan, where I happened to be at a dinner party at…
Leave Wins
Like most Americans, I paid little attention to the Brexit campaign. It seemed a foregone conclusion. The…
Our Religious War
Mary Eberstadt doesn’t believe we’re in a war of the religious v. the secular. In an adapted…
What Brexit Can’t Fix
Ian Morris puts the discontent with Western elites, reflected most dramatically in Britain’s departure from the E.U.,…
Beloved Son and Vineyard
In his long-anticipated and dramatically-completed (read the Preface) Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels, Richard B. Hays…
Very Well, Alone?
By voting narrowly to leave the European Union, the theoretically United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern…
The Ecumenical Consequences of the Peace
Many readers of this blog will be blissfully unaware of a storm that erupted recently among conservative…
Darkness Rebuked
Don’t participate in (sugkoinoneo) darkness, Paul says (Ephesians 5:11). Communion with darkness is fruitless, sterile (akarpos). Instead…
What We’ve Been Reading—6.24.16
Matthew Schmitz This week, for my sins, I read The Power of Positive Thinking and The Art…
Hot Takes and Viral Hits for Your Hip Christian Women’s Magazine
Eggs Benedict Option: Saving Western Civilization over Brunch Ten Espadrilles That Scream Gender Realism Five Must-Have Accessories…
Jesus the Teacher
If not unique, Robert Banks’s Reenvisioning Theological Education is a rarity among studies of theological education in…
Tomb Culture
In an essay on “The Evangelical Subversion of Myth,” René Girard examines Matthew 23:27, Jesus’s comparison of…
Jacob Have I Loved
William Johnstone points out in the first volume of his commentary on 1 & 2 Chronicles that…
