Carl R. Trueman

Neither the Bible, nor church history, nor Christian experience indicates that a one-size-fits-all crisis conversion is necessary. Why is this claim the sort of thing that scares American Evangelicals? Continue Reading »

Recent, ugly nonsense about those who supposedly cannot refrain from sinful sexual relations is pastoral cruelty disguised as kindness. The voice of Archbishop Chaput, by contrast, strikes a welcome and profound note of clarity and true compassion. Continue Reading »

Transgenderism, rather like abortion, puts the law in a contradictory position on the nature of personhood in our contemporary world. Continue Reading »

A new document indicates just how weak Roman Catholic moral theology could become. Continue Reading »

A memorable account of a chance meeting between a pro-life journalist and a pro-abortion politician reveals much about the politics of personhood.
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The choice of Paula White to pray at Donald Trump's inauguration has little significance theologically but speaks eloquently of the state of the nation. Continue Reading »

The church may be moving back to the status it had in the first-century CE but the world around us might be more akin to Rome of the first-century BCE. Continue Reading »

Pascal understood the pathology of our age three hundred years ago. And the answer then, as now, is the Christian one. Continue Reading »

Tony Esolen's love of poetry reminds me of my own love of history, and of why both are important. Continue Reading »

The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church by peter j. leithart baker, 240 pages, $21.99 Peter Leithart’s latest book, The End of Protestantism, began as a set of short but controversial essays for First Things magazine and progressed through a roundtable discussion at Biola . . . . Continue Reading »