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Understanding Gender Dysphoria: A Reply to Gagnon
I would like to thank Robert Gagnon for sharing his thoughts on my Christianity Today article, Understanding…
The Altar Call
Detached from the Eucharistic liturgy, preaching is at sea. Preachers announce the gospel and call our people…
Whose Body Is It?
A year ago, Sarah Ditum wrote a piece for The New Statesman that compared abortion with organ donation,…
The Politics of Lear
According to Fintan O’Toole’s NYRB review, James Shapiro’s The Year of Lear helps to unravel some of the mysteries of…
Why Serious People Support an Unserious Presidential Candidate
Support for Donald Trump exists not despite the crazy, irresponsible things he advocates, but because of them.…
Naught for our Comfort
The Pew Research center has some interesting statistics on the acceptance of gay marriage among evangelicals born…
Double Double Retribution
Revelation 18:6 is made of two chiastic sentences that double back on each other. A. Pay B.…
The Poets of War
Geert Buelens’s Everything To Nothing offers a European-wide review of the poets writing before and during World War…
Sins Stuck to Heaven
A heavenly voice (Revelation 18:4) tells the saints to flee Babylon because her sins have “piled” to heaven…
Pope Francis, Yves Congar, & True Reform
Austen Ivereigh describes Pope Francis’ various reforms in light of the work of Dominican theologian Yves Congar…
A Brief for Sabellius
Christian Faith, Brian Gerrish’s new dogmatics, is well named, echoing as it does Schleiermacher’s classic text. Gerrish…
Memory, Meaning, Metaphor
“Memory is the sine qua non of the creation of meaning,” writes Nicholae Babuts in his Literature and…
Slighting Syria’s Christians
Take a look at the photo below, which appeared recently on Instagram. It’s the photo of a page…
City Depopulated and Repopulated
The opening description of Babylon in Revelation 18 suggests a city depopulated and repopulated. The people have…
Peggy Noonan’s Worry
Peggy Noonan’s new book, The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings, is a volume bound to draw readers…
