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In Defense of Localism

Contrary to the claims of its critics, the American localist tradition cannot be reasonably reduced down to a vehicle of white identity politics.

Ruben AlvaradoFeaturedChurch

What Kuyper Gets Wrong: On the Problem with Denominationalism

Once upon a time, the state shared the public square with the church. The central location of the church building in every European town is mute testimony to this state of affairs. But those days are long gone. Nowadays there […]

E. J. HutchinsonFeatured

To Read Without Pleasure is Stupid: On the Novels of John Williams

John Williams is a moral novelist without being a moralist. His three great novels are sparse, beautiful reflections on human choice and responsibility.

Guest WriterFeaturedBloggingEvangelicalism

The Real Place for Conflict: On Keeping Controversy Close to Home

Social media creates a context in which everyone can voice their opinion on controversies, even when they have nothing to do with them or their home place.

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Book Review: The Classical Revolution by John Borstlap

Borstlap's book fails to deliver on its lofty promises because it doesn't take the time to sufficiently understand the targets of its criticisms.

Joshua HeavinFeatured

A Christian Ethic of Sex in a Pornographic Age

Nadia Bolz-Weber's "Shamless" doesn't give readers a Christian understanding of sexual health. Rather, it makes them prisoners to the spirit of the age.

Guest WriterFeatured

Book Review: Music as an Art by Roger Scruton

Is Scruton's book about a thousand years of western music or just a few centuries?

Miles SmithFeaturedCurrent Politics

Liberalism's Tax on the Unborn

By Miles Smith In 1781 Thomas Jefferson left the office of governor of Virginia and wrote the sole book-length work attributed to him. In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson reflected on what he knew was the great moral […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedEducationEvangelicalism

On Theological Education and the Church's Health

The American evangelical church's indifference to theological education is one of the primary causes of its current malaise.

Guest WriterFeatured

The Latin and Reformed Imagination

Though it is often forgotten, the reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries was as much a literary event as a theological.

Peter LeithartFeatured

John Milbank: A Guide for the Perplexed

I. Theology As Master Discourse. I first met John Milbank, my doctoral supervisor, at a welcome event for new graduate students sponsored by the Divinity School of the University of Cambridge. During the meeting, each faculty member introduced him or […]

S. DormanFeatured

Living Local Fiction

Local fiction has the ability to make the familiar, ordinary, even the boring seem new and surprising. It helps us see our home places with new eyes.