Accompanied by a conservative revolution against the modern spirit, and a Christian revolution in care that zealously defends our mutual obligations to one another, we can use the resources of the state for the prudent care of our created flesh. Continue Reading »
As the United Methodist Church goes through an increasingly bitter, slow-motion divorce, it offers an important cautionary tale for the rest of the body of Christ. Continue Reading »
It is not unusual to come across writers trading on received notions of “evangelicals,” the like of which they would never countenance in their own house. Continue Reading »
What does it mean to cultivate Christian wildness in North America? There are few markers of deep memory by which to orient ourselves to the work of concentration. Continue Reading »
Can anything we ever learn about history, about the universe, about ourselves compare with that reality in its sheer strangeness and wonderful improbability? He is risen; he is risen indeed. Continue Reading »
Given the rejection of Lent by the early Reformed theologians and all the Reformed churches, why are Reformed Christians now attracted to the Lenten season? Continue Reading »
Progressive Christians are replicating one of the oldest ecclesiastical sins of all—conformity to the world, just like their slaveholding ancestors. Continue Reading »
Anna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »
This is the gospel of Lent: He anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. Continue Reading »
The founding consensus combined a salutary emphasis on the necessity of public religion and broadly Christian moral foundations with a liberal forbearance from specifying or enforcing confessional particulars. Continue Reading »
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