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
Christ's death shows that God also reigns over the silence. Continue Reading »
Tara Isabella Burton's novel Here in Avalon hints that life can be guided by unchosen and given quests, lived out in a world teeming with real angels and mysterious human souls. Continue Reading »
When our exterminator, Ervin Humes, showed up at the house back in September 2023, he and I did what Alabamians do: We talked football and Jesus, the two forms of Alabamian religion. Ervin enthused over Paul’s hymn to Christ in his epistle to the Colossians, we lamented the state of the world, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Christians support Trump the anti-scapegoat, for better or for worse, because he embodies a refusal to acquiesce. Continue Reading »
God is necessary to prevent civilization from becoming soulless and settling for lifeless bureaucratic or technological substitutes. Continue Reading »
That I May Dwell Among Them is a rigorous and illuminating look at biblical scholarship. Continue Reading »
United in Christ as one flesh, a husband and wife become an epiphany of the God who says Us. Continue Reading »
The kingdom is good news because the King exerts authority by giving authority, by giving himself. Continue Reading »
From the first seconds, first-time director Michael Sarnoski establishes a deliciously understated, contemplative mood in Pig. Continue Reading »
Wherever the gospel takes hold, it initiates a revolution of elites because the Good Shepherd always comes with good shepherds. Continue Reading »
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