Doctor’s Orders: Read the Bible When You’re Blue

by Mark Bauerlein

Curt Thompson joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Deepest Place. Continue Reading »

22 Jan 2024

Free and Conservative

by R. R. Reno

Avik Roy and John Hood recently launched what they hope will be a movement, Freedom Conservatism. In consultation with others of like mind, they drafted a statement of principles. It’s available on their website, freedomconservatism.org. One can debate the principles and their formulations. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2023

Artemis of the Ephesians

by Mark Bauerlein

Sandra Glahn joins joins the podcast to discuss her new book Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament. Continue Reading »

21 Sep 2023

Second Saul

by Peter J. Leithart

Jesus snatched Saul of Tarsus from the tragic path of the first Saul, which is how he learned of the cunning power of Jesus—a king who enlists Sauls to be heralds of David’s kingdom, who turns Sauls into Jonathans. Continue Reading »

22 Jul 2022

Evangelical Cosmopolitanism

by Peter J. Leithart

Jew and Gentile are knit together as the new Messianic humanity, brought alive by the Spirit to be life to one another, and so life to the world. Continue Reading »

20 Nov 2020

Versions of Paul

by John Wilson

Why do so many books on the Apostle Paul appear every year?  Continue Reading »

11 May 2018

Jesus for Muslims

by Gabriel Said Reynolds

The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslimsby mustafa akyolst. martin’s, 288 pages, $26.99 On September 25, 2017, Mustafa Akyol was arrested by the Malaysian religious police. He had given two lectures in Kuala Lumpur, including a lecture in which he argued against . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

​Grace’s Perfections

by C. Kavin Rowe

Paul and the Giftby john m. g. barclayeerdmans, 672 pages, $70With the publication of E. P. Sanders’s Paul and Palestinian Judaism in 1977, scholarly readings of Paul’s theology dramatically shifted. No longer was Paul’s gospel of “grace alone” to be held up against a legalistic Judaism . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2016

Passion Play

by Peter J. Leithart

At his ascension, Jesus told the eleven disciples that they would receive the Spirit to be his witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. But for some time after Jesus’s ascension, and even after Pentecost, they stayed in Jerusalem.They were finally forced . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Mar 2016

God, the Devil, and The King's Speech

by Gerald McDermott

Just after my wife and I watched the new hit movie, “The King’s Speech,” a friend asked me if I enjoyed it. “No, I suffered through it. But it was a great movie.” I have been a stutterer since the age of six. Every time King George VI puffed his cheeks helplessly as he tried to get out a word, I felt the frustration and pain. … Continue Reading »

15 Mar 2011