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The Left Is Right About the Bible
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (120+ words) It is only upon readers who wish to see a Christian civilization survive and develop that I am urging the importance of the study of Latin and Greek. If Christianity is not to survive, I shall not mind if the…...
Charlie Kirk???s Evangelical Populism
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (303+ words) If this happens, it will be fueled by the new evangelical populism that emerged in the post-9/11 world. This populism is a broad coalition of Baptist, Bible Church, and Pentecostal-Charismatic congregations and ministers, many of them non-denominational. Kirk did not…...
Pope Leo's Unified Church
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (76+ words) Image by Sipa USA via AP. Germán S. Díaz del Castillo is associate editor at First Things. Virginia Aabram is newsletter editor at First Things. Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at…...
The Horror of an Impotent God
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (432+ words) A new play inspired by the seven-film Paranormal Activity series is now on stage at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. At the heart of the play is not simply the question of whether God and demons are…...
The Monstering of Evangelicalism
1+ week, 5+ day ago (838+ words) The following is an excerpt from Bonnie Kristian’s new book, In Defense of Evangelicalism. The Week hired me for my politics, but my faith soon came in handy too. I was the only visibly practicing evangelical on the writing staff,…...
The Spiritual Appeal of Democratic Socialism
3+ week, 5+ day ago (370+ words) As a proud “Reagan Democrat,” I felt blessed to be in Berlin a few days after the Wall fell in November 1989. I will never forget the sight of the Wall’s death strip or the blight and stench of decrepit East…...
Stories That Tell the U.S. Catholic Story
3+ week, 5+ day ago (180+ words) Fiction can often convey the human texture of a time and place better than scholarly works of history. Herewith, and in honor of the national semiquincentennial, some novels that help tell the Catholic story in these United States through a…...