Politics Archives

If the heavenly reading of Guerra’s illustration is meant to supplant the intense pain it addresses, then it’s being misread.

The Church has a profound gift for a world hungry for true authenticity: consistent convictions about truth.

My white Christian brothers and sisters can learn how to fight injustice from Eminem’s performance.

Justice and mercy demand an answer for DREAMers, even as we as a nation expend great effort to secure the border and uphold the rule of law.

There’s a long history that’s given us the expectation that our politics should entertain us.

Politically, I came of age in the mid-90s, and I have never forgotten the horror of Rwanda.

In contemporary U.S. society—as in Twain’s post-Civil War South, as in Le Guin’s 1960s culture war America—our shared humanity is dangerously easy to ignore.

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?