Carl R. Trueman

An interview with Carl Trueman about The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Continue Reading »

In future, could American politicians please keep religion out of their platforms and propaganda? Continue Reading »

The crumbling of the LGBTQ+ alliance may well be a sign of the death of the old culture of sexual ethics.  Continue Reading »

When I first read Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind more than thirty years ago, amid the relentless polemic I was struck by one passage: his attack on Louis Armstrong’s version of “Mack the Knife,” a song I knew and enjoyed, albeit in the far superior version by Bobby . . . . Continue Reading »

I wonder whether we might see something even more significant than a second wave of COVID-19: a second ecclesiastical apocalypse. Continue Reading »

Repentances that are oriented toward the world rather than God seem designed to enhance our status in the world rather than truly abase us before a holy God. Continue Reading »

If critical theory in its demolition of the past can often degenerate into an ideological justification of ingratitude, then Marcuse was both its pioneer and its poster boy.  Continue Reading »

In a time where cheap outrage passes for true analysis, First Things provides thoughtful cultural criticism that models virtue even as it calls out the idols of the age. Continue Reading »

Douglas Farrow’s Theological Negotiations takes the reader to the very heart of our cultural confusions. Continue Reading »

The politics of contemporary social science now has an iron grip on what are deemed legitimate perceptions of reality.  Continue Reading »