Sharp Compassion

by Nathan M. Antiel

Anna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2023

St. Ambrose’s Advent Hymn

by E. J. Hutchinson

Here is a new English verse translation of one of St. Ambrose's most popular compositions, which takes the Incarnation of the Son of God as its theme. Continue Reading »

13 Dec 2022

Blame It on Luther?

by Carl R. Trueman

It may well be that subjectivism is where the Protestant Reformation led, but it was certainly neither Luther’s intention nor his own stated position. Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2021

Catholicism Made Me Protestant

by Onsi A. Kamel

Like all accounts of God’s faithfulness, mine begins with a genealogy. In the late seventeenth century, my mother’s Congregationalist ancestors journeyed to the New World to escape what they saw as England’s deadly compromise with Romanism. Centuries later, American Presbyterians converted my . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2019

A Plenteous Seed of Witnesses

by Mathew Block

Confessional Lutheranism has experienced a renaissance in the past few years. Continue Reading »

8 Nov 2018

Learning From Luther

by Carl R. Trueman

The Making of Martin Luther by richard rex princeton, 296 pages, $27.95 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation by peter marshall oxford, 278 pages, $24.95 A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation by craig harline  oxford, 312 pages, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

If Only Francis Were Luther!

by Carl R. Trueman

Roman Catholics should worry less about Pope Francis's resemblance to Luther and more about his resemblance to Erasmus.  Continue Reading »

21 May 2018

A Rose in Bloom: Luther’s Reformation at 500

by Mathew Block

The confessional Lutheran church today may be poor and weak, but it stands as the true heir of the Reformation.  Continue Reading »

3 Nov 2017

Luther at 500

by Phillip Cary

It all did start with the ninety-five theses, in a sense. Luther probably did not actually nail them to the church door—at least no one at the time tells us so. And if he did, it was not in anger or protest against the church. He was trying to arrange an academic discussion, and evidently . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2017

A Luther for Millennials

by Philip Jeffery

The Luther of Eric Metaxas's biography closely resembles the struggling young evangelicals Metaxas aims to inspire. Continue Reading »

25 Oct 2017