In Freely Sober: Rethinking Alcohol Through the Lens of Faith, Ericka Andersen has written a book for people like her: evangelical Christian women struggling in secret with a dysfunctional relationship to alcohol. Continue Reading...
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January 02, 2026
Beijing’s Battle Against God and the Chinese People
The grander a dictator’s ambitions, the more likely he is to see religion as a threat. So it is with Xi Jinping, who has ruled the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with increasing ruthlessness since November 2012, when he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Continue Reading...
December 31, 2025
The Human Heart of the Little Tramp
A hundred years ago, Charlie Chaplin brought out The Gold Rush, an incredibly famous and influential silent movie that has won the praise of countless artists since. Comedy on screen asserted its rights, as did artists. Continue Reading...
December 30, 2025
St. Augustine: Out of Africa
Quite a number of years ago, it was estimated that every year there are some 500 articles and monographs, both popular and scholarly, written throughout the world on the North African pastor-theologian-saint Augustine (354‒430). Continue Reading...
December 29, 2025
Is America Simply Jefferson vs. Hamilton?
Herbert Butterfield in his The Whig Interpretation of History argued that assessing the past in light of the present, what we call “presentism,” is the source of all historical errors. Our tendency to do so results from a very real problem: How do we impose some sort of narrative order on the complex, disparate, and voluminous material presented in historical reflection? Continue Reading...
December 24, 2025
Christmas Is God Brought Near
A perennial theme of modern holiday classics, from the ridiculous Jingle All the Way to the sublime A Charlie Brown Christmas, is the conspicuous absence of the Christmas spirit during Christmas season. Continue Reading...
December 23, 2025
A Book That Will Shock You
Dr. Michael Pakaluk, a philosopher and professor at the Catholic University of America, has written 11 books, but somehow this was the first to make it into my hands. Pakaluk is a bit of a legend in certain circles. Continue Reading...
December 22, 2025
The Long Road to Freedom: María Corina Machado’s Nobel Journey
I will never forget my encounter with María Corina Machado, in Lima, Peru, in 2014. Upon landing in that city she learned that the Venezuelan government, which had been persecuting her, had stripped her of her parliamentary immunity and that if she returned to her native land she would not be able to leave again. Continue Reading...
December 18, 2025
The Case for Civil Religion
The organization Americans United for Separation of Church and State, founded in 1947, declares that the “U.S. Constitution is a wholly secular document” in making the case that America is and always has been a secular nation. Continue Reading...
December 17, 2025
There Is No Freedom Without Religious Freedom
Publishers often promote books as being “timely,” even when the book in question just seems like the latest on a picked-over topic. Eerdmans, the publisher of John D. Wilsey’s excellent Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer, uses the word “timely” to market Wilsey’s book, too. Continue Reading...
