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Divine Double-Talk

Peter J. Leithart

Day 3 of the creation week was unique, and a turning point in the creation week. When…

Ask Not: On Gifts and Debts

Dale M. Coulter

When John F. Kennedy delivered one of the most significant lines in the history of presidential inaugural…

Subsystemic Conflict

Peter J. Leithart

Irene Dingel’s contribution to Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture, 1550-1675 examines the role of controversy in the formation of…

Renewal and Temple Personnel

Peter J. Leithart

In a 1991 article in the Journal of Biblical Literature, John H. Wright asks what role 1…

Soap and Oprah

Carl R. Trueman

Last week I stumbled across the document issued recently by the Roman Catholic bishops of Malta. It…

Ecumenism in the Sixteenth Century

Peter J. Leithart

During the early decades of the Reformation, there were efforts on all sides to reconcile Reformers and…

What We’ve Been Reading—2.3.17

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Elliot Milco: My reading habits have been changing lately. Early in the winter I picked up and…

Gorsuch and the Washington Script

Mark Movsesian

A familiar Washington script exists for Republican Supreme Court nominations. Once the president announces his choice, Democrats…

Vetting the Executive Order

Robert P. George

Robert P. George: Angela Wu Howard is a leading international human rights lawyer and activist with whom…

Subversive Psalmody

Peter J. Leithart

Diarmaid MacCulloch (Reformation: Europe’s House Divided) calls attention to the effect of Psalm-singing, spurred on by Beza’s…

Divided Protestantism and Silent Churches

Peter J. Leithart

Diarmaid MacCulloch (Reformation: Europe’s House Divided) points to the “bizarre fortunes” of the Bremen Cathedral to illustrate…

Religious Liberty, Religious Suppression

Peter J. Leithart

Brad Gregory (Unintended Reformation, 130-2) argues that, despite their obvious differences, modern states that allow free religious…

Games in the Streets

Peter J. Leithart

Zechariah thought utopia is a place where there are games in the streets: “the streets of the…

Persecution in Nigeria

Peter J. Leithart

Douglas Murray reports at The Spectator on the ongoing and largely ignored persecution of Christian villages in…

Disenchantment and Anthropomorphism

Peter J. Leithart

At the beginning of their Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno define Enlightenment in terms…