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Charlie Kirk???s Evangelical Populism
2+ day, 20+ 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
3+ day, 16+ 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 Monstering of Evangelicalism
1+ week, 3+ 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,…...
A Jewish Case Against the Naked Public Square
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (117+ words) When people ask where I intern, I watch their faces carefully. I say: First Things, a journal of religion and public life founded by a Lutheran pastor who soon thereafter became a Catholic priest. The response, almost always, is some…...
Pärt’s Music of the Word
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (130+ words) The music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has been described as spiritual, transcendent, Eastern, angelic, ethereal, mystical, ascetic, tranquil, otherworldly. Jeremy Begbie adds “escapist” to the modifiers, criticizing Pärt for constructing a “cool sonic cathedral” while ignoring the ragged plane…...
Are Latter-day Saints Christians?
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (91+ words) Even the LDS Church’s specific affirmations—that Jesus is divine, that he is our only Savior—aren’t enough. Jeremy M. Christiansen is an associate professor of law at Regent University Law School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In this episode, Matthew…...
Worth Beyond Our Works
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (152+ words) In the future, everyone will know the grief of Garry Kasparov. The Russian grandmaster was bested by the chess-playing computer Deep Blue in 1997. No human competitor since then has made a plausible run at taking the title back. When our…...
When a Cathedral Disappears
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (253+ words) The demolition also took place only days before April 24, when Armenians around the world commemorate the Armenian Genocide. A cathedral that was built within living memory was erased on the eve of remembering a catastrophe that once sought to erase…...
A Dreadful Humility
4+ mon, 20+ hour ago (116+ words) At some point we must give up trying to understand other people. Love them, surely. But recognize that such a love cannot be based on comprehension. We need always to remember that our love is carried on some great tide…...
While We’re At It
4+ mon, 20+ hour ago (288+ words) In the Saint Matthew Passion, Bach intersperses a chorale when the Twelve, at the Last Supper, after hearing Jesus’s words, ‘One of you will betray me,’ ask: ‘Is it me?’ The text of the chorale exclaims, on behalf of us…...