Carl R. Trueman

The LGBTQ debate is about the radical abolition of metaphysics and metanarratives and any notion of cultural stability that might rest thereupon. Continue Reading »

Human mortality has always fascinated the greatest ­creative minds—from Homer declaiming on the slayings of Patroclus and Hector, to Sigmund Freud speculating on death drives. Roger Scruton even locates the significance of artistic endeavor in the fact that we understand our existence to be . . . . Continue Reading »

Modern Western culture has tried to domesticate and marginalize death. But death is inevitable.  Continue Reading »

Charles Taylor’s latest work, co-authored with Patrizia Nanz and Madeleine Beaubien, details how Western democracy is in serious trouble. Continue Reading »

In view of the archbishop’s impending retirement from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, it seems appropriate to pay a debt of honor by offering some personal reflections. Continue Reading »

The Christian church cannot expect its younger generation to hold the line on traditional sexual ethics if that generation is not properly catechized in the basics of the faith.  Continue Reading »

Evangelical elites are clearly out of touch with the populist evangelical base. And lambasting the populists as hypocrites or dimwits will simply perpetuate the divide. Continue Reading »

First Things remains committed to showing that honest, open discussion of the most important issues in this earthly city are vital. Continue Reading »

The most immediate and pressing ecumenical question for Protestants is not their relationship to Rome but their relationship to one another. From the moment Luther refused to accept Zwingli’s memorialist view of the Lord’s Supper at Marburg in 1529, the history of Protestantism has followed the . . . . Continue Reading »

The elasticity of Title IX in our current climate renders it the left’s equivalent of Batman’s all-purpose utility belt. Continue Reading »