Donald Trump and the Evangelical “Crisis”

by Darren Guerra

Trump’s candidacy revealed three main groups of white evangelicals, each distinguished by prudential political judgments.  Continue Reading »

5 Jan 2018

Evangelical Identity in an Age of Trump

by Dale M. Coulter

Though many evangelical Christians are rethinking the “evangelical” label, it’s still the best option they have. Continue Reading »

2 Jan 2018

On Refusing to Be Comforted This Christmastide

by Roberto De La Noval

If the Feast of the Holy Innocents has a moral meaning, it is this: God’s election of our suffering is always enfolded within the greater election of our ultimate joy. Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Letters

by Various

PROTESTANT PARANOIA? R. R. Reno confirms Samuel Gregg’s suspicion that First Things is tempering its embrace of free markets (“Building Bridges, Not Walls,” November). Perhaps he can confirm—or deny—whether the journal is also rethinking its commitment to the free exercise of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Dispatches from Russia

by Marcus Plested

Some little while ago, I found myself sitting in the grounds of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, delighting in the spring flowers and being treated to a prodigious display of bell-ringing. I reflected at the time that the Russians have few peers among other nations in their great love for church . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Redemption Camp

by Armin Rosen

The revelation is said to have occurred on Willoughby Street in Ebute-Metta, a slum on the Lagos mainland. In 1952, Josiah Akindayomi, then an illiterate peasant, fell into a trance while praying with friends. When he emerged, he saw he had scrawled something on a blackboard, short lines of text he . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Bondage and Freedom

by R. R. Reno

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation sent me back to Luther and his debate with Erasmus. The two were among the most widely read authors in sixteenth-century Europe. In the early 1520s, they exchanged dueling treatises on free will. They raised recondite theological questions of biblical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

The First Sexual Revolution

by Kyle Harper

Epictetus was the sort of figure that only the Roman Empire could have produced. He was born in the Phrygian hills of Anatolia in the middle of the first century. Enslaved and brought to the capital, he served in the household of the freedman Epaphroditos. Epaphroditos, in turn, was in the direct . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

The Zealous Faith of Secularism

by Mary Eberstadt

Begin with a sobering fact. During the past ten years, some of the sharpest observers of our time have come to believe that the tectonic plates underlying Western civilization have shifted momentously. One result is a deep, creative struggle among the thoughtful for new imagery and fresh analogies . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Jesus for Muslims

by Gabriel Said Reynolds

The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslimsby mustafa akyolst. martin’s, 288 pages, $26.99 On September 25, 2017, Mustafa Akyol was arrested by the Malaysian religious police. He had given two lectures in Kuala Lumpur, including a lecture in which he argued against . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018