The Cost of the Faith
by Mark BauerleinJerry Pattengale and Rev. Johnnie Moore join the podcast to discuss their book The New Book of Christian Martyrs: The Heroes of Our Faith from the 1st Century to the 21st Century. Continue Reading »
Rooting Out the Weeds
by Megan BashamFirst Things remains relevant by focusing on the eternal, not the fashionable. It is not merely conservative, but sound. Continue Reading »
Interview with an Evangelical
by John WilsonI have never been approached by one of those pollsters with a list of questions intended to suggest how crazy “we” are (evangelicals, that is). But if I were, here’s what I would say. Continue Reading »
In Defense of the Philosopher King
by Esmé PartridgeThe idea of a monarch who engages with other faiths is not as novel as it may seem, and yet when it comes to King Charles III, soon to be crowned in Westminster Abbey, this is often overlooked. Continue Reading »
Theology in Division
by Brad EastLevel with me—you’re Catholic, right? I get this question a lot—from students, folks at church, academic colleagues. I teach theology at a Stone–Campbellite university in west Texas. My friends and neighbors are, almost to a person, low-church believers, whether restorationist or . . . . Continue Reading »
Are Catholics and Evangelicals Really Together?
by J. Daryl CharlesThe receptive ecumenical outlook can, among other things, help us discern between true and false ecumenism. Eduardo Echeverria models this receptive mode in his latest book. Continue Reading »
Fear God, Honor the Emperor
by Evangelicals and Catholics TogetherLeaders of the Civil Rights Movement urged resistance to laws that enforced racial discrimination. They appealed to natural law and God’s law, with the aim of reforming our civic order in accordance with transcendent standards. In our time, the rule of law denies nature and usurps the authority of . . . . Continue Reading »
Ephraim Radner on the Last Lambeth Conference
by R. R. RenoEphraim Radner joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October 2022 issue, “The Last Lambeth Conference.” Continue Reading »
On the Ukrainian Border
by Cole S. Aronson“I doubt if we ever come back home,” says Helen, who until recently taught English to second- and third-graders in Mykolaiv, a southern Ukrainian city of several hundred thousand. “Putin wants Mykolaiv,” Helen says. A large majority of Mykolaiv residents speak Russian at home. The . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow
by George WeigelA meeting between the current Bishop of Rome and the current Patriarch of Moscow would not have been a meeting of two religious leaders. It would have been a meeting between a religious leader and an instrument of Russian state power. Continue Reading »
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