The Waste Land at 100

by Jason M. Baxter

The best place to read T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land—in order to commemorate its one hundredth anniversary this year—is the airport. Continue Reading »

23 Aug 2022

The Myth of the Modern Self

by Carl R. Trueman

Once force and intimidation are necessary, the myth is surely becoming a lie, something that is known to be untrue but to which loyalty is demanded by our cultural powerbrokers anyway.  Continue Reading »

21 Jul 2022

The Church in the Immanent Frame

by Brad East

Modernity is both an epoch and an ideology. We have to live in the epoch; we don't have to accept the ideology, even for a moment. Continue Reading »

14 Jul 2022

A Church for a World in Crisis

by Mark Bauerlein

Barry Harvey joins the podcast to discuss his recently revised book, Baptists and the Catholic Tradition: Reimagining the Church's Witness in the Modern World. Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2022

Six Modern Theologians Every Thoughtful Person Should Read

by Bruce Riley Ashford

Thoughtful non-theologians will benefit from patient exposure to these scholars. Continue Reading »

6 Jun 2022

Michael Lewis on the Architecture of Repair

by R. R. Reno

Michael Lewis join the podcast to discuss the late Christopher Alexander's work of attuning architecture to practical human needs. Continue Reading »

26 May 2022

How the Person Became a Self

by Ryan T. Anderson

In Strange New World, Trueman uncovers and describes the underlying social and intellectual forces that explain why his grandfather would have rejected sexual reassignment without a second thought but President Biden can declare that “transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.” Continue Reading »

5 Apr 2022

Who Invented the Individual?

by George Weigel

By desacralizing state power, Christianity helped make possible the idea of the limited state, which was not an immaculate conception sprung from the mind of John Locke.   Continue Reading »

12 Jan 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

Advancing in Place

by Gladden J. Pappin

We’re stuck. The signal innovations of modern times—mass water purification, electricity, automobiles, modern manufacturing processes—are behind us. This slowing of invention presents a problem. We are trapped by the imperative of ever more innovation even as innovation becomes harder . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2021