Carl R. Trueman

Preaching lays claim to that power of language with the authority of God behind it. It is thus an assertion of reality, a reminder of God’s sovereignty and our dependence upon him. Continue Reading »

The moral shelf life of pop cultural artifacts seems much shorter than ever before, and the criteria by which they might be judged far less predictable. Continue Reading »

Nominalism has won, and politics has thus become preoccupied with language. Continue Reading »

It may well be that subjectivism is where the Protestant Reformation led, but it was certainly neither Luther’s intention nor his own stated position. Continue Reading »

Not every student at a Catholic university needs to be a faithful Catholic, but the institution itself absolutely must be. Continue Reading »

Twitter is both a symptom and a contributing cause of the collapse of rationality we see all around us. Like the pamphlets of the sixteenth century, tweets are ephemeral and insubstantial. Continue Reading »

It is one thing for someone unaware of the biblical narrative to adopt the rainbow. It is quite another thing for Christians, especially priests and ministers, to use the rainbow as a means of acknowledging the LGBTQ movement. Continue Reading »

There are times in history when Christianity feels its place in ­society coming under threat. As it finds itself pushed to the margins, two temptations emerge. The first is an angry sense of entitlement, an impulse to denounce the entire world and withdraw into cultural isolation. In the early . . . . Continue Reading »

Cartesian mind–body dualism undergirds the rhetoric of abortionists. Continue Reading »

The battle over pronouns on social media and in public spaces, as trivial as it seems, is actually of great importance. Continue Reading »