Children’s Books for Adults
by John WilsonEarly this month, I encountered a children's book in a store near Wheaton College that would enrich my life. Continue Reading »
Calvinism 2.0
by James R. WoodThe Neo-Calvinist movement has much to offer contemporary theology. But if its contributions are going to last, we need to enter a period of “consolidation.” Continue Reading »
Remembering Tim Keller
by Dale M. CoulterKeller was a lover of God and of people. He relished the conversation, was unafraid of pushback from skeptics, and courageously launched out into broken spaces that others had abandoned. God bring us more Tim Kellers. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousWokeism in Court I should begin by congratulating Frank Resartus on his excellent essay “Defeating the Equity Regime” (May). Resartus believes “conventional right-wing jurisprudence” on “just a handful of constitutional questions” could “defeat the [equity] regime altogether.” . . . . Continue Reading »
The Life and Works of Huldrych Zwingli
by Mark BauerleinF. Bruce Gordon joins the podcast to discuss his book, Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet. Continue Reading »
Paul Schrader’s Acts of Repentance
by Armond WhiteReligious films rarely receive critical acclaim these days, but a recent exception is Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Continue Reading »
Calvinist Environmentalism?
by John MurdockWith Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism, Mark Stoll chronicles how conservationism and its green progeny arose from Calvinism. “When Emerson advised the solitary individual to seek mystical union with the Divine in the woods,” writes Stoll, “he simply restated long-standing Calvinist advice.” Continue Reading »
Calvin, Kuyper, and God's Aesthetic Purposes
by Richard J. MouwAbraham Kuyper was fond of appealing to John Calvin’s authority on various subjects, but when he turned to the subject of art in his 1898 Stone Lectures at Princeton Seminary, he did so in a rather odd way. He said that he was going to look for insights from the Genevan Reformer on the subject . . . . Continue Reading »
Puritans on the Potomac
by Timothy GeorgeOn a late November evening in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, Celestia Ferris, chief washer-woman at the Bureau of Engraving, organized a prayer meeting not far from the U. S. Capitol. She was joined by a circle of earnest Christians, mostly of the Baptist persuasion, who . . . . Continue Reading »
The Third Temptation
by Richard J. MouwIn the mid-1970s, the famous Mennonite theologian and ethicist John Howard Yoder visited Calvin College to give a lecture explaining the Anabaptist perspective on political authority. His opening comments offended many in his audience (including me). Referring to the Gospel account of the third . . . . Continue Reading »
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