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View MoreIn a recent issue of First Things, theologian Brad East provocatively declared that confessional Protestantism was on its last statistical legs, writing that “the original Protestant vision, articulated and enacted by the first generations of Reformers, is on life support. It barely registers in surveys.” He invited readers to imagine [...]
If you've only seen The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy but not read the books, you might not know that the story of the Hobbits doesn't move straight from the final defeat of Sauron to their immediate return to a peaceful Shire happily ever after. There's a second-to-last chapter left out of the films [...]
While the problems of the evangelical Purity Movement have been well documented, one of its biggest errors was promoting a non-theological account of modesty focused almost exclusively on behaviors. With few exceptions, modesty was largely cast as the responsibility of women to avoid certain dress code [...]
On the morning of October 7, 2023, waves of Hamas fighters stormed the border of Israel from neighboring Gaza in a bloody surprise attack. The assault was borne out of a religious, political, and geographical dispute that has raged between the two groups for generations. [...]
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I was blessed with a grandfather who modeled a life that represented an impeccably well-ordered hierarchy of loves. Jasper N. Dorsey (1913–1990), whom we all called “Papa,” was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, friend, churchman, patriot, and public servant. He was the most honorable man I have ever known. [...]
In this essay, I want to make the case that disciple-making belongs exclusively to the church, because disciples are made by God alone through the liturgy—the ministry of word and sacrament in gathered worship. Liturgy is discipleship; discipleship is liturgical. [...]
Holly Pivec and R. Douglas Geivett are apologists and recognized experts on the New Apostolic Reformation movement. I first met Holly and Doug in 2018 when I was publisher for Lexham Press. We had recently acquired the rights to their first two books on the dangers of this movement. [...]
