Peter J. Leithart

Augustine is a guide to facing crises, some real, some imagined, with firm confidence. Continue Reading »

Ephraim Radner calls our attention to essential truths that are almost never spoken in our over-heated political climate. Continue Reading »

In the debate around Christian Nationalism, the term “nation” can be poorly defined. Continue Reading »

Christ's death shows that God also reigns over the silence.  Continue Reading »

Tara Isabella Burton's novel Here in Avalon hints that life can be guided by unchosen and given quests, lived out in a world teeming with real angels and mysterious human souls. Continue Reading »

When our exterminator, Ervin Humes, showed up at the house back in September 2023, he and I did what Alabamians do: We talked football and Jesus, the two forms of Alabamian religion. Ervin enthused over Paul’s hymn to Christ in his epistle to the Colossians, we lamented the state of the world, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Christians support Trump the anti-scapegoat, for better or for worse, because he embodies a refusal to acquiesce. Continue Reading »

God is necessary to prevent civilization from becoming soulless and settling for lifeless bureaucratic or technological substitutes. Continue Reading »

That I May Dwell Among Them is a rigorous and illuminating look at biblical scholarship.  Continue Reading »

United in Christ as one flesh, a husband and wife become an epiphany of the God who says Us.  Continue Reading »