For many years, apart from sporadic eruptions in American society, the issue of race has played Banquo’s ghost at the American evangelical banquet: an unsettling, unwelcome, somewhat passive guest. But recent trends in American public opinion, fueled by reports of police violence, have made race . . . . Continue Reading »
The constant refrain of this book is that American evangelicals are not necessarily either white or Republican. As the author points out, evangelicals are distinguished more by charitable giving than by Republican voting. And their numbers have frequently been drawn from African-American, Native . . . . Continue Reading »
Those who knew J. I. Packer had no doubt that his lifelong reading of the Puritans fertilized his heart and mind. Continue Reading »
In The River of the Immaculate Conception, James Matthew Wilson confirms his vocation as a public poet. Commissioned by the Benedict XVI Institute, this poem sequence of seven parts leads us through the lives of St. Juan Diego, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Père Marquette, with interludes on . . . . Continue Reading »
Joshua Harris was the product of, and a major player in, a wider movement that is proving increasingly problematic. Continue Reading »
A new book merely scratches the surface in its investigation of Donald Trump's ascendancy among evangelical Americans. Continue Reading »
Why is it that our expectations for the life to come are so rarely mentioned? Continue Reading »
The task of narrating Christianity's global expansion is fraught. Continue Reading »
This Present Darkness by frank e. peretti crossway, 375 pages, $14.99 As a teenager, I was convinced that a spirit of false prophecy had attached itself to my neck. This spirit’s name—according to one of our youth group leaders—was Python, after the Pythia, or Oracle of Delphi. I did . . . . Continue Reading »
Joshua Harris has officially denounced and discontinued publication of his bestselling book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Continue Reading »
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