Carl R. Trueman

This year's Oscars will again display that identification of aesthetics with ethics which is now the default position of Western society.
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Last Sunday, a New Jersey Lutheran church celebrated the transition of its pastor from womanhood to manhood.  Continue Reading »

Christian colleges should wean themselves off of government money as soon as possible. Continue Reading »

Every problem has a genealogy, and helping readers to understand that is a major part of what First Things does. Continue Reading »

Modern sex education keeps plunging society into deeper problems—and it keeps proposing as the solution more and more of the same.  Continue Reading »

Both catastrophist and triumphalist narratives of the Reformation, however sophisticated and nuanced the idiom, always oversimplify.  Continue Reading »

If any good has come from Weinstein’s crimes, it is that the champions of sex as recreation are being forced to contradict their own philosophy. Continue Reading »

Transgender ideology depends upon a distinction between the genders, even while denying the only grounds for maintaining that distinction. Continue Reading »

Why does our culture allot special importance to the political views of NFL players? It is a sign of modern society's absurdity.  Continue Reading »

Let the church be the church, and leave therapy to the therapists—or the politicians. Continue Reading »