Peter J. Leithart

Despite his similarities with Socrates, Paul is more than simply a Christian Hellenist. Continue Reading »

When intelligence gets flattened, everything else does too. Continue Reading »

János Zoltán Csák's status as a foreign observer allows him to speak the truth in love about the United States. Continue Reading »

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 »