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The United Methodist Church (UMC) has removed Asbury Theological Seminary from its list of institutions approved to train its ministers. Hardly a bastion of right-wing Protestant fundamentalism, Asbury has...

Buckingham Palace has updated the official description of the monarch’s role vis-à-vis the Church of England. No longer is the king the “Defender of the Faith”; rather, “His Majesty...

H. Richard Niebuhr famously denounced the liberal church of his day, summarizing its theology in a single withering sentence: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a...

In a recent New York Times guest essay, Catholic writer David Gibson praised Pope Leo for moving his church away from “pelvic theology.” For those unfamiliar with the term, it is a way of dismissing those concerned...

Although I have been on loan to Notre Dame at the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government this year, I returned to Grove City College to take part in...

Another well-known minister has resigned from his pastoral office due to a previously undisclosed inappropriate relationship. The twist in this grimly familiar tale is that he had largely built...

Prior to the November 2024 election, transgender issues loomed large for many parents, who feared the erosion of parental rights regarding their children’s “gender identity.” The phrase “They are...

My new book, The Desecration of Man, emerged from something I had noticed while researching questions...

Regular First Things readers will know that one of my preoccupations is the dehumanization that grips our cultural moment, from the casual abuse that right and left hurl at...

It is fascinating to be an outsider on the inside of an institution going through times of trouble. It is akin to having a backstage pass to a Police...

This past week, I read three things that offered a glimpse of how empty the modern notion of what it means to be human really is. The first was...

Question: Why do babies in the womb have fewer rights than vermin? Answer: Because men can buy Viagra over the counter. Yes, this sounds at best like a piece...

One of the most striking aspects of our therapeutic age is the increasing inability of many to sustain a sane and coherent moral hierarchy. Perhaps this stems from the...

I anticipate that the most controversial part of my forthcoming book, The Desecration of Man, will be my discussion of how modern fertility treatments such as IVF and surrogacy...

It was Gerstäcker’s mother. She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty. It was difficult to understand...