Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute, Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author, most recently, of Creator (IVP).
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Peter J. Leithart
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The World Moore Made
G. E. Moore helped dig the chasm that gapes, for good and ill, between the Victorians and us.
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Tale of Two Quarterbacks
Outside sports, where can you see fine-tuned teamwork in action, where hard work, skill, and grit are rewarded in real time? Continue Reading »
Sustaining the Faithful
First Things is indispensable as a guide through the shadows of our current disruptions and discontents. Continue Reading »
China's Future in the Balance
Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu is being persecuted because the church refuses to register with the state or join the officially sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Continue Reading »
The New Cool
The Coens’ hipness isn’t skin deep, but it doesn’t go all the way down either. Continue Reading »
Angels of Advent
The hosts of heaven proclaim the good news that in Jesus mankind has reached its destiny. Continue Reading »
Deneen Among the Liberals
Deneen’s definition of liberalism disregards the role of religion and the public management of religion in the formation of liberal order. Continue Reading »
Clashing Victimocracies
Politics dissolves into brutality unless it’s infused with apolitical habits and virtues—humility, gentleness, forbearance, forgiveness, kindness, charity, love. Continue Reading »
Educating For Liberty
Education is genuinely liberal—education for freedom—only if it’s willing to conduct students away from self-love to proper objects of love. Continue Reading »
When Justice Fails
Human justice often fails, but we can seek justice in a higher court. Continue Reading »
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