In defense of unity
Peter J. Leithart on the relationship between ecclesial unity and religious liberty
Faith of our fathers
Nathan O. Hatch’s The Democratization of American Christianity argues that Jeffersonian and Jacksonian visions of human flourishing stamped American Christianity with an individualistic character that fundamentally shaped the American Church and its message.
Who strangled God?
James Turner examines the ways in which the pursuit of “relevant” theology helped to make atheism plausible in Western culture
Immediately yours
Todd Gitlin on the effect of media on our sense of time
Irrigating deserts
C. S. Lewis on why teachers must train the sentiments
Reducing Enlightenment glare
Colin Gunton on the alienation advanced by the Enlightenment
A culture of one
Andrew Keen argues that the survival of the very best forms of cultural expression, in journalism, music, fiction, and other disciplines, requires a network of mediation and accreditation.
After irony
Richard Rorty’s tangled spiritual pilgrimage has origins in being the grandson of social gospel theologian Walter Rauschenbusch and the son of committed Leninists.
An ancient modern confusion
Ken Myers offers a brief primer on the heresy of Gnosticism
The market-driven marriage?
The commodification of everything is a problem, not an opportunity.