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Recent events indicate that the struggle against the dehumanization represented by trans ideology is far from over. True, the U.K. has closed down the Tavistock child gender identity clinic,...

Predictably, the recent proposed Texas and Louisiana laws that would require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments generated rhetorical legal controversies, driven by the selectively vigilant...

Even as I was writing my column on the irrelevance of mainline Christianity two weeks ago, the Church in Wales was providing yet more evidence of the self-inflicted nature...

If Ernest Hemingway were to interview American mainline Protestantism in 2025, the conversation would go something like this: “How did you go spiritually bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually and then...

Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the British headlines from the past few weeks. The House of Commons approved...

The current interest in the church and the sacred is cause for celebration, as Christianity offers the truth about what it means to be human: a creature made in...

The advent of Pride Month, albeit in recent years a slightly more muted affair than in the past, is an annual reminder of one of the central aspects of...

In this episode, First Things brings you the recording of the 2025 D.C. Lecture presented by Carl Trueman. Please subscribe to access more information about future lectures and many great...

Are we living at the Hour of the Fathers? Today, talk of early church theologians and ancient church wisdom is all around us. One could argue this has been...

For me, the end of the academic year is always bittersweet. The sweetness comes from seeing students cross the stage at graduation and realizing that many of them have...

The era of Francis is over, and it is time to start the postmortems on his tenure. Throughout his time as pope, Roman Catholic critics of Francis typically prefaced...

Last week, two signs of our times passed across my desk. First, a colleague drew my attention to the forthcoming volume A Queer Lectionary: (Im)proper Readings from the Margins—Year...

It is no profound insight to note that one of the great challenges of our time is how to respond to the speed of technological change. This bites hardest...

Reports of the financial struggles and decline in membership among large American denominations have become so commonplace that they often elicit little more than a shrug. But every now...

Canada’s laws on medically assisted dying are remarkably progressive even by today’s standards. In 2022, the government reported that 4.1 percent of all deaths in Canada were medically assisted...