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The Bible figures the Spirit as breath, wind, smoke, and flame. He blows where he will, circulates invisibly, flickers like glory. You can hear his voice, but you can’t...

Ascension Day, celebrated by the Western Church on May 14 this year, is the neglected stepchild of the Christian year. Advent has its calendars and its wreaths; Christmas its...

I ’m late to the party, but, at a friend’s suggestion, I recently watched Detectorists, a BBC Four comedy that ran for three seasons between 2014 and 2022. Created,...

Reformed thinkers have recently been debating whether or not civil officials should endorse Christianity and promote and protect the church. James Baird’s King of Kings concisely assembles a biblical...

God is not mocked, Paul tells us (Gal. 6:7). Matthew’s Passion narrative (Matt. 27:27–44) suggests otherwise. Matthew tells us very little about Jesus’s physical sufferings. For him, the cross...

Does the U.S.-Israel assault on Iran fill the criteria of Christian just war theory? A number of observers have asked the question, including R. R. Reno, and given inconclusive...

Way back in the day, when Elon Musk stalked the halls of the federal bureaucracy swinging his giant, if metaphorical, chainsaw, we learned a lot about the U.S. Agency...

Natural law theory teaches that God embedded a teleological moral order in the world, such that things mature toward fixed ends. Human beings exist to realize both natural and...

A lawyer friend who defends cops in use-of-force cases cautioned me not to draw conclusions about the Renee Good shooting from video evidence, no matter how decisive it looks....

I have lived in Ohio, Michigan, Georgia (twice), Pennsylvania, Alabama (also twice), England, and Idaho. I left home to go to college, left another home to attend seminary, and...

I remember what winning feels like. An opening-drive lightning strike, up by three touchdowns midway through the second quarter, the defense an impenetrable wall, scrubs and water boys entering...

Paul Kelly’s forthcoming Against Post-Liberalism could hardly be more timely. Post-liberalism has recently been a topic of intense debate, as liberals and liberal-leaning...

Forty days after his resurrection, Jesus meets the remaining eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee. He declares his authority in heaven and on earth and sends his disciples...

No man is an island,” John Donne declares in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. The Ballad of Wallis Island, a new film directed by James Griffiths, gives us not...

“Hope,” wrote the German-American polymath Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, “is the deity of youth.” Wholly dependent on adults, children have little scope for action and “can only hope for the best.”...