Carl R. Trueman

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  Sep 15, 2023

  Why most Anglican clergy now approve gay marriage — and what this means for the future of the church

  It is neither pastoral nor caring to deny the moral significance of the sexed human body, nor to participate in the further demolition of an institution whose purpose is to provide children with a loving and stable environment.

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  Aug 3, 2023

  In our chaotic age, some atheists are rethinking secularism

  As the fundamental question of what it means to be human is thrown into confusion, it is not just religious communities that feel threatened.

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  Jul 22, 2023

  Toe the government line or lose your kids

  Despite this latest lunacy, I remain confident that the trans madness will come to an end, though sadly not without significant human carnage.

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  Jul 20, 2023

  Why I became an American citizen

  Do I believe in America? It is not an easy question to answer.

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  Jun 13, 2023

  Blasphemy then and now: God-man vs. man-god

  The original movie was controversial because it mocked the God-man, the central truth of the Christian faith. Now it is controversial because it mocks the man-god, the central truth of our contemporary world.

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  May 24, 2023

  Transgression is passé

  One of the hallmarks of the modern age has been the death of the sacred.

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  May 12, 2023

  Dennis Prager's troubling defense of pornography

  The conservatism that markets itself through soundbites and “hot takes” might work well as light entertainment on Twitter or YouTube, but it will really offer no deep diagnosis of our contemporary cultural problems.

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  Apr 22, 2023

  Does the Church of England need Evangelicals?

  The last few months of chaos over the issue of gay marriage seem finally to have done what decades of doctrinal indifferentism and even the advent of women priests failed to achieve: An Evangelical rebellion among the Church of England’s most committed evangelical congregations. 

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  Apr 8, 2023

  Baptizing the status quo, then and now

  Only when we stop exchanging isolated Bible verses and set those verses within the broader framework of a truly Christian anthropology — one that takes embodiment, dependence and obligation seriously — will we avoid the tragic errors and sins that mark the Christian past. 

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  Mar 23, 2023

  A tale of 2 student protests: They're not always obnoxious

  Protests do not always need to be obnoxious, like the one at Stanford. Some weeks ago, I was myself subject to a protest while speaking at another college.