Carl R. Trueman

Race and Covenant offers a discussion of race in America that acknowledges the very real scars of slavery and the ongoing problem of race along with proposals that seek a constructive way forward. Continue Reading »

For many years, apart from sporadic eruptions in American society, the issue of race has played Banquo’s ghost at the American evangelical banquet: an unsettling, unwelcome, somewhat passive guest. But recent trends in American public opinion, fueled by reports of police violence, have made race . . . . Continue Reading »

An interview with Carl Trueman about The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Continue Reading »

In future, could American politicians please keep religion out of their platforms and propaganda? Continue Reading »

The crumbling of the LGBTQ+ alliance may well be a sign of the death of the old culture of sexual ethics.  Continue Reading »

When I first read Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind more than thirty years ago, amid the relentless polemic I was struck by one passage: his attack on Louis Armstrong’s version of “Mack the Knife,” a song I knew and enjoyed, albeit in the far superior version by Bobby . . . . Continue Reading »

I wonder whether we might see something even more significant than a second wave of COVID-19: a second ecclesiastical apocalypse. Continue Reading »

Repentances that are oriented toward the world rather than God seem designed to enhance our status in the world rather than truly abase us before a holy God. Continue Reading »

If critical theory in its demolition of the past can often degenerate into an ideological justification of ingratitude, then Marcuse was both its pioneer and its poster boy.  Continue Reading »

In a time where cheap outrage passes for true analysis, First Things provides thoughtful cultural criticism that models virtue even as it calls out the idols of the age. Continue Reading »