Carl R. Trueman

The Making of Martin Luther by richard rex princeton, 296 pages, $27.95 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation by peter marshall oxford, 278 pages, $24.95 A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation by craig harline  oxford, 312 pages, . . . . Continue Reading »

Roman Catholics should worry less about Pope Francis's resemblance to Luther and more about his resemblance to Erasmus.  Continue Reading »

Sexual love cannot be reduced to the simplistic categories of power, exploitation, and individual desire. Continue Reading »

This year's Oscars will again display that identification of aesthetics with ethics which is now the default position of Western society.
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Last Sunday, a New Jersey Lutheran church celebrated the transition of its pastor from womanhood to manhood.  Continue Reading »

Christian colleges should wean themselves off of government money as soon as possible. Continue Reading »

Every problem has a genealogy, and helping readers to understand that is a major part of what First Things does. Continue Reading »

Modern sex education keeps plunging society into deeper problems—and it keeps proposing as the solution more and more of the same.  Continue Reading »

Both catastrophist and triumphalist narratives of the Reformation, however sophisticated and nuanced the idiom, always oversimplify.  Continue Reading »

If any good has come from Weinstein’s crimes, it is that the champions of sex as recreation are being forced to contradict their own philosophy. Continue Reading »