
Carl R. Trueman
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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
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
If tradition is useless, something that needs to be overcome, then the reason for monarchy has long since gone.
The Church of England takes a 'third way' on gay marriage
When it comes to the laws of progressive culture, he who is guilty in one point is guilty in all.
No mercy without rules
Any Christian leader who manages to separate mercy from rules in such a way as to prioritize the former over the latter would not really be merciful at all.
Identity politics on the right
The tawdry Achord affair has revealed an ugly side to a certain part of the American Christian world. Real white supremacy really exists and is a real sin. It requires real action and real repentance from those Christians who espouse it.
David French and the future of orthodox Protestantism
Orthodox Protestants in America can now have clarity on the way forward and the choices that lie before them.
Ingratitude has dehumanized us
We live in an age marked by infantile ingratitude. And if Scruton is right, that means we live in an age when we do not really know how to live at all. Ingratitude has dehumanized us.
Gay vs. queer
If C. S. Lewis warned 80 years ago of the abolition of man, we today are witnessing the abolition not just of “man” but of meaning as a whole.
Why 'Bros' failed at the box office
The new gay rom-com, "Bros," has bombed at the box office. Director Nicholas Stoller and star Billy Eichner, in full Nietzschean ressentiment mode, are in little doubt about why the film flopped: homophobic weirdos refusing to go and see it.