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September 13, 2019

Christians Want to be Modern, But They Don’t Trust Moderns

If you can believe it, the disagreement between Sohrab Ahmari and David French has gone...

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July 09, 2019

The Main Thing about Evangelicalism

Born-again Protestantism was always tricky to define, but evangelical support for President Trump has sent...

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February 06, 2019

Pay, Pray, and Obey is No Longer the Laity’s Paygrade

One of the best books never read was Garry Wills' Politics and Catholic Freedom. This...

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December 07, 2018

I Would Rather be Treated by a Smart Turk than an Untrained Christian

Some dispute that Martin Luther ever said that he would rather be ruled by a...

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November 12, 2018

Teaching the Integration of Church and State while Teaching the Separation of Church and State

John Allen, one of the best Roman Catholic journalists covering the Vatican, called it "Weird...

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April 23, 2018

Left Behind

Paul Elie reviews Ross Douthat's new book on Pope Francis. Notice what he leaves out...

April 20, 2018

Deconstructing or Condemning Evangelicalism

As a historian and believer keenly aware of the gap between my own convictions, Reformed...

January 2018

January 13, 2018

Edgardo Mortara

He may not be a familiar name now, though the recent controversy over Pius IX's...

January 06, 2018

Thick Roman Catholicism?

What's good for the goose dot dot dot Robert Barron, whose fame came with his...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

What Calvinism Solves

Does liberalism contain the seeds of its own destruction?

September 2017

September 12, 2017

If Only the New Atheists Were Funny

Today is the anniversary of H. L. Mencken's birth. Arguably, one of the greatest American...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

Freedom with Qualifications

From presidents to non-Americans, many people used to regard the United States as the leader...

March 2017

March 02, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America Before the Election (part 3)

The reason is that we were reading Wendell Berry (at least) thirty years ago: The...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried about America Before the Election (part 2)

Dwight Macdonald, a mid-twentieth century Marxist critic who wrote for the New Yorker, New York...

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August 17, 2016

Church Unity Eliminates Jobs

That assertion is obvious. If Methodists and Presbyterians both have editors of denominational magazines, then...

June 2016

June 02, 2016

All Ages After the Fall Are Dark

Rodney Stark begins his chapter on the Dark Ages with an important observation: "For many...

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