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How the Elite Changed Its Mind on Christianity August 07, 2025
Depending on who you ask, America's young people are experiencing a religious revival. Gen Zers are now more likely to attend church weekly than millennials, with young men in particular leading the return to religious services. While Gen Zers are st...
'South Park' Has Lost the Plot August 01, 2025
Since 1997, South Park has satirized just about every group in modern life while hilariously positioning itself as the voice of moderation. Yet with the premier of Season 27 last week, the show seems to have lost sight of reality, instead circling th...
The Categorical Judeo-Christian Imperative April 02, 2025
A generation fed on a daily diet of apocalyptic gruel is bound to overindulge in hyperbolic discourse. But obsessing about intractable problems or, worse, about trivialities manifestly unworthy of hysteria, by deflecting attention risks allowing genu...
Shūsaku Endō, Christianity, and Japan April 02, 2025
Is Christianity an exclusively Western faith? In his most famous novel Silence, published in 1966 and adapted by Martin Scorsese in 2016, Japanese Catholic writer Shūsaku Endō (1932-1996) follows the stories of seventeenth century Jesuit missionaries...
Martin Luther King's Vision Anchored in His Christian Faith January 22, 2025
It was the last speech of his life, the speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave on April 3, 1968. It was a radically Christian speech in, of all places, a church: Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, central headquarters of the Church of God in Christ. Lik...
The New Iconoclasm January 20, 2025
In the historical struggle over images—iconomachy (Eikonomachía)—there is no doubt that in the Christian West the iconophiles were victorious. That said, Byzantine defenders of holy representation could not possibly have foreseen how, and to what ext...
Here’s Stanley! January 20, 2025
In 1966, at 38, Stanley Kubrick told a friend he wanted to make “the world’s scariest movie.” The idea may have stemmed from childhood fears. Kubrick wasn’t particularly brave in his youth. His father, Jacques Leonard Kubrick, was a doctor, and young...
The Unbearable Burden January 17, 2025
You already have an opinion on this man. You may like him, you may dislike him. You may have a long list of gripes about things he has said or things you imagine he has said: “He claimed that dragons are real! He wanted to give bride-slaves to incels...
Believe for Your Own Sake, Not for "the West" January 17, 2025
Some years ago, I dated somebody who matched with me on a dating app because I identified myself as someone to whom religion is important. He had specifically searched for someone to whom religion is important. Back then, I was a relatively-new Chris...
Public Life Beyond Politics January 16, 2025
What is public life? In the leadup to the election, the evangelical author Nancy Pearcey tweeted out an appeal for pastors to be more political. Those who do not preach politics, she argued, offer “a privatized Christianity.” At a major conservative ...
How to Storm and Save an Ivory Tower January 07, 2025
Not until quite recently did American colleges cease being free expression zones. After University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom sounded the alarm with his bestselling The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and...
Wokeness Was Never a Religion January 07, 2025
At the height of “wokeness” (or “social justice” if you like), writers like Helen Lewis and John McWhorter speculated that it might be “our new religion,” supplanting Christianity at a time when society was becoming increasingly secular....
A Space Novel for Earth Lovers December 17, 2024
I’ve never been a space guy. Earth, like Robert Frost said, seems to be “the right place for love.” While I appreciate the ambition of those of us who want to travel to Mars, I’m not attracted to the idea because I’m not desperately in love with the ...
Motherhood After Christianity December 17, 2024
Does history bend toward progress or does it bend toward chaos? In her new book Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity, the classics scholar Nadya Williams argues that any society without a gui...
Understanding the Times December 16, 2024
WORLD’s Book of the Year in the Christian nonfiction category is Aaron Renn’s Life in the Negative World (Zondervan, 272 pp.). Renn’s division of the experience of American Christians into the positive, neutral, and negative worlds has proven to be a...
Decline of Evangelicalism Helped Elect Trump December 09, 2024
A whopping 80% of evangelicals voted for President-elect Donald Trump in 2024. But behind that headline number, the dramatic fall in these Christian’s cultural influence played a much more profound role in Trump’s victories than evangelical voters di...
