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Charlie Kirk???s Evangelical Populism
3+ day, 15+ 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…...
The Horror of an Impotent God
5+ day, 7+ 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, 4+ 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,…...
Equipping the Church for the IVF Era
3+ week, 2+ day ago (599+ words) The elders were at a loss for words. They knew that the church had not directly addressed this issue before and that Anna hadn’t spoken to any of the pastors or leaders about it. What should they make of Anna’s…...
Christianity Is Not a Tool
4+ week, 2+ day ago (70+ words) Germán S. Díaz del Castillo is associate editor at First Things. Virginia Aabram is newsletter editor at First Things. Who is Jason Arday? Until last week, the man at the center of the biggest recent scandal… In his breakout 2000 memoir,…...
Have American Catholics Given Up on Evangelizing?
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (337+ words) Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never as wise as we need to be. The best intentions can have unintended consequences. The data are at least plausible. They warrant some…...
A Catholic Moment or an Evangelical Century?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (444+ words) Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in an evangelical century. The previous “Catholic moment,” lasting from 1995 to 2002 by Bottum’s reckoning, failed to fill the Mainline Protestant void. Rather, the post-Protestant…...
Holding Things Together
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (101+ words) Everything is beautiful, from the smallest artifact to the greatest. But only God sees this. Our job is simply to hold things together, for the Perecs of the world and for us, until he makes it clear. Ephraim Radner is…...
The 39th Annual Erasmus Lecture: Only the Old Testament Can Restore America
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (293+ words) First Things The 39th Annual Erasmus Lecture: Only the Old Testament Can Restore America Union League Club, 38 E 37th Street, New York, NY 10016 First Things invites you to join us for the thirty-ninth annual Erasmus Lecture, “Only the Old Testament Can Restore…...
Who Gets Custody of the Latin Mass?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (280+ words) First Things Who Gets Custody of the Latin Mass? In any messy breakup, there are the inevitable conflagrations over custody of the kids, the dog, the vinyl collection. The parting of ways between the Catholic Church and the Society of…...