Peter J. Leithart

Anointed by the Spirit, we become living sacrifices, crowned with flame, not ash, and burning like the burning bush— burning, but not consumed.  Continue Reading »

Birmingham has been known as the “City of Perpetual Promise,” but the promise is only perpetual because the city never quite lives up to it. Continue Reading »

Celebrations of Ruskin’s polymathic genius usually miss the role of Christianity in his outlook and writing. Continue Reading »

Protestants can offer a fundamental challenge to liberal order only insofar as we retain, and enhance, the sacrificial dimension of classical Protestantism. Continue Reading »

G. E. Moore helped dig the chasm that gapes, for good and ill, between the Victorians and us.
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Outside sports, where can you see fine-tuned teamwork in action, where hard work, skill, and grit are rewarded in real time?  Continue Reading »

First Things is indispensable as a guide through the shadows of our current disruptions and discontents. Continue Reading »

Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu is being persecuted because the church refuses to register with the state or join the officially sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Movement.  Continue Reading »

The Coens’ hipness isn’t skin deep, but it doesn’t go all the way down either. Continue Reading »

The hosts of heaven proclaim the good news that in Jesus mankind has reached its destiny.  Continue Reading »