Carl R. Trueman

Carl R. Trueman

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  • In our chaotic age, some atheists are rethinking secularism

    In our chaotic age, some atheists are rethinking secularism

    As the fundamental question of what it means to be human is thrown into confusion, it is not just religious communities that feel threatened.

  • Toe the government line or lose your kids

    Toe the government line or lose your kids

    Despite this latest lunacy, I remain confident that the trans madness will come to an end, though sadly not without significant human carnage.

  • Why I became an American citizen

    Why I became an American citizen

    Do I believe in America? It is not an easy question to answer.

  • Blasphemy then and now: God-man vs. man-god

    Blasphemy then and now: God-man vs. man-god

    The original movie was controversial because it mocked the God-man, the central truth of the Christian faith. Now it is controversial because it mocks the man-god, the central truth of our contemporary world.

  • Transgression is passé

    Transgression is passé

    One of the hallmarks of the modern age has been the death of the sacred.

  • Dennis Prager's troubling defense of pornography

    Dennis Prager's troubling defense of pornography

    The conservatism that markets itself through soundbites and “hot takes” might work well as light entertainment on Twitter or YouTube, but it will really offer no deep diagnosis of our contemporary cultural problems.

  • Does the Church of England need Evangelicals?

    Does the Church of England need Evangelicals?

    The last few months of chaos over the issue of gay marriage seem finally to have done what decades of doctrinal indifferentism and even the advent of women priests failed to achieve: An Evangelical rebellion among the Church of England’s most committed evangelical congregations. 

  • Baptizing the status quo, then and now

    Baptizing the status quo, then and now

    Only when we stop exchanging isolated Bible verses and set those verses within the broader framework of a truly Christian anthropology — one that takes embodiment, dependence and obligation seriously — will we avoid the tragic errors and sins that mark the Christian past. 

  • A tale of 2 student protests: They're not always obnoxious

    A tale of 2 student protests: They're not always obnoxious

    Protests do not always need to be obnoxious, like the one at Stanford. Some weeks ago, I was myself subject to a protest while speaking at another college.

  • Identity politics at the king's coronation

    Identity politics at the king's coronation

    If tradition is useless, something that needs to be overcome, then the reason for monarchy has long since gone.