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Paulโs Ethnic Gospel
Grace, not raceโโso goes the tidy maxim by which many modern interpreters characterize Paulโs gospel. In this reading, Paul severs the covenant community from its ethnic roots and replaces...
Unmanly Anti-Semitism
Last November, prominent Christian leaders released and signed โThe Antioch Declaration,โ a document that directly confronted the rising tide of anti-Semitism among certain segments of the Christian right. It...
A New Evangelical Harvest
American culture is undergoing a โvibe shift.โ Thereโs a resurgence of hope among conservatives that politics and culture will increasingly return to reality. But alongside this, there seem to...
Evangelicals Must Stop Their Preferential Treatment of the Left
Aaron Rennโs โnegative worldโ thesis broadly posits that in contemporary America the primary forces of culture are turned against Christians and Christian moral teaching. Identifying as a Christian and...
Calvinism 2.0
Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introductionby cory c. brock and n. gray sutantolexham academic, 320 pages, $36.99ย Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck are the theological fathers of the Reformed renewal movement...
How I Evolved on Tim Keller: A Follow-Up
James Wood, associate editor at First Things, responds to criticisms of his widely discussed original essay โHow I Evolved on Tim Keller.โ James discusses his critique of โwinsome third-wayismโ and...
How I Evolved on Tim Keller
My family’s beloved thirteen-year-old dog is named Keller. Every day he serves as a reminder of the ways that a certain Presbyterian pastor in New York City influenced me...