Peter J. Leithart

As junior members of the company of living souls, animals are summoned, along with human beings, to worship God. Continue Reading »

The common, everyday, petty baseness of people is far more frightening than the most horrific fictional characters. Continue Reading »

Buckley was right. We don’t immanentize the eschaton. We don’t have to. God does. He already has, two thousand years ago, at a tomb outside Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Advent announces the coming of the Lord who breaks the arms of the sex traffickers, the drug lords, the arms dealers, and all their respectable collaborators. Continue Reading »

By leaving an imprint on our grandkids, we throw a line to generations we’ll never live to see. To be a grandparent is to build a bridge of hope from the past into the future. Continue Reading »

The digital-government complex is animated by a utopian dream. Google wants to change the world, which means changing people. Continue Reading »

King Lear is a political play, a drama of kingship. In Lear as in his English history plays, Shakespeare explores what happens when a world loses the political rituals that once ordered it. Continue Reading »

It’s doubtful that Craig’s minimalist creation account can nourish the Evangelical imagination or sustain Christian orthodoxy. Continue Reading »

I oppose vaccine mandates because I want to do my small part to gum up the works. I don’t mean the works of the Biden administration, but the much larger global trend toward biopolitical technocracy. Continue Reading »

In answer to Pilate’s cynical question, “What is truth?” Christians confess Jesus as the Way, Truth, and Life. Continue Reading »