Contempt Causes Insanity
by John WilsonAmerican evangelicals as described by Enright for readers of the NYRB are worth a few minutes of your attention. Continue Reading »
The Global Christian Right
by Peter J. LeithartLauren Frances Turek’s 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the Religious Right. Continue Reading »
Defined by the Cross
by David BebbingtonThe 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 »
Thomas Howard, RIP
by Kenneth CraycraftTom had a deep sense that these things God had given us were infused with the presence of grace. Continue Reading »
Catholic Zionism
by Gavin D’CostaIn 1965, in Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is irrevocable. Lumen Gentium had done the same the year before, concurring with what St. Paul says about biblical Judaism in Romans 11:29 (“For the gifts and the call of God . . . . Continue Reading »
The Case For Keeping Trump
by Peter J. LeithartThere are times when you have to oppose something just because you shouldn’t give the satisfaction of victory to its supporters. Continue Reading »
Defining “Evangelical”
by Samuel D. JamesA review of Thomas S. Kidd’s Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis. Continue Reading »
All About Evangelicals
by John WilsonWhat struck me on this encounter with G. K. Chesterton’s The Innocence of Father Brown is how often in these stories “evangelical” is used as a term of scorn. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousA Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail by charles a. coulombe saint benedict, 264 pages, $27.95 Despite its frequent appearances in pop culture, the Holy Grail is elusive to us—even more elusive than it was to Perceval and King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table. Films that present it as a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Sex Education We Need
by Abigail Rine FavaleChristians, especially evangelicals, must recover the beauty and coherence of a teleological worldview. Continue Reading »
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