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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Victoria Holmes |Daniel N. Gullotta |Nic Rowan |Alastair Roberts
Published March 9, 2025 Last Easter, more than 1,300 people joined the Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.—many of them young conservatives. With Catholicism gaining influence in right-wing politics and leaders such as Vice President J.D. Vance embracing the faith, is Catholicism becoming the backbone of the conservative movement?
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Daniel N. Gullotta |Alastair Roberts |Michael Reneau |Michael Wear
The Bible seems to be having a moment. Book sales data reveal a across the United States last year, driven largely by first-time buyers. The market is also seeing innovation from new publishers and translations, including the viral Bibliotheca, which omits chapter and verse numbers for enhanced readability, and fresh translations by renowned scholars like N.T. Wright and David Bentley Hart.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Alastair Roberts |Michael Reneau |Megan Dent |Kevin Williamson
Like other terms such as “freedom” or “love,” “empathy” is generally something of a “hurrah” word; people agree that, whatever it is, it is a very good thing. Recent decades have witnessed burgeoning literature on empathy.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
mereorthodoxy.com | Alastair Roberts
At some point over the last few years, the interpretation of the story of David and Bathsheba became a matter of frequent contention on social media. Every few months, some tweet will revive ‘Bathsheba discourse’ and several days of heated argument will follow. At the heart of the dispute is the question of whether David raped Bathsheba.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
firstthings.com | Alastair Roberts
We Who Wrestle with God:Perceptions of the Divineby jordan b. petersonportfolio, 576 pages, $35
A man who disbelieved the Christian story as fact but continually fed on it as myth would, perhaps, be more spiritually alive than one who assented and did not think much about it.” So claimed C. S.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | O. Alan Noble |Aaron M. Renn |Alastair Roberts |Myles Werntz
I had a plan for today’s paid subscriber’s post. It was a good plan. I intended to respond to ’s article on ladder climbing. I knew that had already responded with a great Twitter thread. But I thought to myself, that’s just a Twitter thread. Surely there’s still room for me to contribute. Then swooped in with this brilliant take and beat me to it. And this is after Myles forced me to rethink the direction of my book last week with his article in Christianity Todayon “Rules of Life” and the church.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
newsletter.oalannoble.com | O. Alan Noble |Aaron M. Renn |Alastair Roberts |Myles Werntz
I had a plan for today’s paid subscriber’s post. It was a good plan. I intended to respond to ’s article on ladder climbing. I knew that had already responded with a great Twitter thread. But I thought to myself, that’s just a Twitter thread. Surely there’s still room for me to contribute. Then swooped in with this brilliant take and beat me to it. And this is after Myles forced me to rethink the direction of my book last week with his article in Christianity Todayon “Rules of Life” and the church.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
digitalliturgies.net | Alastair Roberts |Susannah Black Roberts |Aaron M. Renn
Note: The discussion post for Hartmut Rosa’s The Uncontrollability of the World is coming early next week. Today, I’d like to publish a guest essay by my friend . A version of this essay originally appeared at Alastair and ’ newsletter The Anchored Argosy. ’s ‘three worlds’ model of American secularization has received considerable attention since his article ‘The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism’ was published in First Things.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
logos.com | Alastair Roberts
Share FacebookRedditPinterestEmailLinkedInWhatsApp To read any book well, we need a “read” upon the sort of text that the book is. For example, while both could be purchased in the typical bookstore, a recipe book must be “read” very differently from a Shakespearean play.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
plough.com | Alastair Roberts
Make yourself safe. Make yourself a name. Make yourself eternal. These three are the drivers behind much of what we humans do, according to the story that the Hebrew Bible tells about the development of human civilization. These are what we, as a species, have treated as our telos, our purpose. They are not what God has made us for. But the tricky thing is that they’re not entirely unrelated either.
