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Carl R. Trueman
There is a clear push to grant LGBTQ+ ideology a favored legal and cultural status that enforces it without compromise, with any dissent labelled as morally evil. Continue Reading »
The loss of modesty seems to have fueled nothing but the further sexualization and objectification of the female body. Continue Reading »
Ancient philosophy is being revived—but for purposes it cannot serve. Continue Reading »
Self-indulgent to a tee, the only morality the modern West knows is that which chimes with whatever the tastes of the moment happen to be, whatever works, whatever makes money. Continue Reading »
Preaching lays claim to that power of language with the authority of God behind it. It is thus an assertion of reality, a reminder of God’s sovereignty and our dependence upon him. Continue Reading »
The moral shelf life of pop cultural artifacts seems much shorter than ever before, and the criteria by which they might be judged far less predictable. Continue Reading »
Nominalism has won, and politics has thus become preoccupied with language. Continue Reading »
It may well be that subjectivism is where the Protestant Reformation led, but it was certainly neither Luther’s intention nor his own stated position. Continue Reading »
Not every student at a Catholic university needs to be a faithful Catholic, but the institution itself absolutely must be. Continue Reading »
Twitter is both a symptom and a contributing cause of the collapse of rationality we see all around us. Like the pamphlets of the sixteenth century, tweets are ephemeral and insubstantial. Continue Reading »
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