Peter J. Leithart

The common, everyday, petty baseness of people is far more frightening than the most horrific fictional characters. Continue Reading »

Buckley was right. We don’t immanentize the eschaton. We don’t have to. God does. He already has, two thousand years ago, at a tomb outside Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Advent announces the coming of the Lord who breaks the arms of the sex traffickers, the drug lords, the arms dealers, and all their respectable collaborators. Continue Reading »

By leaving an imprint on our grandkids, we throw a line to generations we’ll never live to see. To be a grandparent is to build a bridge of hope from the past into the future. Continue Reading »

The digital-government complex is animated by a utopian dream. Google wants to change the world, which means changing people. Continue Reading »

King Lear is a political play, a drama of kingship. In Lear as in his English history plays, Shakespeare explores what happens when a world loses the political rituals that once ordered it. Continue Reading »

It’s doubtful that Craig’s minimalist creation account can nourish the Evangelical imagination or sustain Christian orthodoxy. Continue Reading »

I oppose vaccine mandates because I want to do my small part to gum up the works. I don’t mean the works of the Biden administration, but the much larger global trend toward biopolitical technocracy. Continue Reading »

In answer to Pilate’s cynical question, “What is truth?” Christians confess Jesus as the Way, Truth, and Life. Continue Reading »

Christians who walk in the Spirit, who pray for parrhesia, who stay with Jesus, can be confident the Spirit will teach them irrefutable words to speak at just the right moment. Continue Reading »