Politics Archives

With multiple popes in play, the people could freely listen to whichever pope was convenient for them at the time, sort of like national church-shopping.

If our nation’s leading intellectuals can disagree with each other and still be civil, why can’t the rest of us do the same?

Jesus is more cosmopolitan than many ordinary Americans seem to recognize.

Russell Moore and the ERLC represent some of the best of what evangelicals can do to represent the life-giving truth of the Gospel.

The Church will have the most robust and faithful engagement with our fallen world when we break out of the echo chamber.

This is what 1984 can offer us: a fuller picture and vocabulary to articulate the brokenness beneath our apathy, fear, and information overload.

School Choice means that some kids might get left behind. Are we really okay with that?

We forget our own spiritual displacement when we grasp too hard at this world, when we make our “Americanness” the hallmark of our identity.

Eric Metaxas has written an inspiring book on American exceptionalism. But does he blur the details of history?

Like Oliver Cromwell, people have a tendency to become the things they hate.

We have remembered our kingdom’s crown but have neglected the example of our king.

As my students and I discussed Herman Melville‘s “Benito Cereno” the text on Friday, many of them wept.

With the election over, we should point to our churches and proclaim a better way that is possible in the gospel.

Culture is a thing to be cultivated, not conquered. Let’s change our political metaphors.

Censorship is great—as long as you’re the one holding the Sharpie in the culture war.

Three movies to watch before you vote to help steel your nerves, and one movie to watch after you vote — to help wash away the stench of national politics.