Carl R. Trueman

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  Dec 1, 2022

  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.

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  Nov 21, 2022

  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. 

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  Nov 9, 2022

  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. 

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  Oct 20, 2022

  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.

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  Oct 10, 2022

  A rift in the rainbow alliance

  Alliances forged to defeat a common foe do not provide a solid basis for a positive vision. Rather, they end either in sell-outs or civil war. There is a lesson there for traditional social conservatives.

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  Sep 15, 2022

  The cancellation of Dr. Nassif

  Whatever the claims it makes about its much-trumpeted commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, in reality progressive rhetoric operates to demonize people like Dr. Nassif and delegitimize his beliefs without actually having to address their substance.

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  Aug 2, 2022

  The myth of the modern self

  We are furious that our bodies place limits upon us, pointing out that we have natural obligations to others and cannot be whatever and whoever we wish. It is why anyone who argues this — and any court decision that moves society toward acknowledging this fact — is greeted with irrational fury and vindictiveness.

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  Jul 15, 2022

  Christians should rejoice over Dobbs

  Nobody regards the fall of Hitler as a morally ambiguous thing, even though it was only made possible by the Americans and the British striking a deal with Joseph Stalin. Yes, Trump is obnoxious, but he isn’t Stalin, and he did deliver on the abortion issue. Dobbs is a moment for joy.

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  Jun 29, 2022

  Tom Hanks gets empathy wrong

  Hanks clearly feels for the suffering of gay men with AIDS and does not want to trivialize or exploit that suffering in any way. And he feels this because he, like them, is a human being and thus empathetic to their plight. Yet in declaring that it is inappropriate for a straight actor to play a gay man on screen, he negates the importance of the shared humanity that makes him empathetic in the first place.

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  Jun 22, 2022

  Queer nation is no nation at all

  By flying the Pride flag at U.S. embassies, the Biden administration indicates that it thinks that it can. The 50+ variations would seem to suggest the opposite. Queer nation will ultimately prove to be no nation at all.