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Paulโ€™s Ethnic Gospel

James R. Wood

Grace, not raceโ€โ€”so goes the tidy maxim by which many modern interpreters characterize Paulโ€™s gospel. In this reading, Paul severs the covenant community from its ethnic roots and replaces...

Unmanly Anti-Semitism

James R. Wood

Last November, prominent Christian leaders released and signed โ€œThe 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

James R. Wood

American culture is undergoing a โ€œvibe shift.โ€ Thereโ€™s 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

James R. Wood

Aaron Rennโ€™s โ€œnegative 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

James R. Wood

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 R. Wood

James Wood, associate editor at First Things, responds to criticisms of his widely discussed original essay โ€œHow I Evolved on Tim Keller.โ€œ  James discusses his critique of โ€œwinsome third-wayismโ€ and...

How I Evolved on Tim Keller

James R. Wood

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...