Christianity

A Godless Great Awakening

Identity politics provides a cheap shortcut to redemption, a fig leaf that hides man from his own darkened heart. Continue Reading »

2 Jul 2020

Race and Redemption

by Gerald McDermott

Many church leaders and parishioners are adopting a race narrative that is empirically and theologically suspect. Continue Reading »

11 Jun 2020

A Wafer-Thin Practice

by Hans Boersma

The bodily presence of Christ in the wafer and the bodily presence of the believers in church are two sides of the same coin. Continue Reading »

12 May 2020

COVID-19 and the Spiritual Life

by Dale M. Coulter

During and after the Black Death, Christianity saw the blossoming of an interior spirituality. Continue Reading »

14 Apr 2020

Learning From the Jewish Easter

by R. R. Reno

God’s deliverance of his people from the dominion of Pharaoh is a raising of Israel from the dead. Continue Reading »

10 Apr 2020

Faith and Love in Tandem

by Kevin Martin

Now is the time to be strong in faith and love—especially the love for our neighbor. Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2020

Embracing the Kind of Redeemer God Appointed

by George Weigel

Western culture tends to forget that suffering is an irreducible part of the human condition. Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2020

Uncertainty and the Christian

by Ephraim Radner

The uncertainties of the present are the building blocks of hope, not its detritus. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2020

A few years ago, when a group of students at Emory University prepared to demonstrate against a controversial speaker, I asked a senior why they wanted to do so. She had a background different from that of the typical selective school attendee, a hard-edged one, and she’d already told me that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Formation for Worship

by Hans Boersma

The Christian faith does not terminate in propositions about God. This conviction comes through loud and clear in James K. A. Smith’s recently completed three-volume work, Cultural Liturgies. Smith’s trilogy may be read as a friendly yet firm word of caution to his Reformed . . . . Continue Reading »