Just as there is soft pornography, there is also soft nihilism.  Sociologist James Davison Hunter once observed that America has become “a nihilist culture without nihilists.” Most Americans could not define nihilism. Few have read Friedrich Nietzsche, its great...

If you had walked the dusty roads of Galilee behind the incarnate God, if you had stood in the Upper Room and felt the rush of the Pentecost wind, if you had eventually penned one of the four Gospels — you would probably feel worthy. Matthew did not. For Matthew,...

Between 2000 and 2023, the liberal-conservative fissure dividing young men and women in America doubled in size. In that time, the male trend was surprisingly stable. Young women did the heavy lifting, becoming five times more liberal in 2023 than their predecessors...

"There is no more potent tool for rupture than the reconstruction of genesis: by bringing back into view the conflicts and confrontations of the early beginnings and therefore all the discarded possibilities, it retrieves the possibility that things could have been...

There is a word in the Hebrew Bible with dots above it. Not vowel markings, but mysterious, heavy ink dots hovering just above the consonants. In the entire expanse of the Old Testament, scribes placed these puncta extraordinaria over only fifteen specific passages....