articles by Peter J. Leithart

35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022

When Worlds Die

Encouragement for Christians Preparing for the End


34.2 — March/April 2021

Population Controls

Fertility and Faith by Philip Jenkins Baylor University Press, 2020


32.2 — March/April 2019

What Gives?

on Properly Rendering Things to Caesar & to God


31.5 — September/October 2018

Surprised by Knowledge


31.2 — March/April 2018

A Sacrifice of Song


30.4 — July/Aug 2017

Beauty & the Vice


30.3 — May/June 2017

The Look of Revelation

Christian Formation in Our Apocalyptic Age


23.4 — July/August 2010

Sign of the Son

What Did Constantine Know & When Did He See It?


23.2 — March/April 2010

Job’s Progress

on Maturity for a Rising Generation


22.8 — November/December 2009

Souls Bound & Unbound

on the Surprising Madness of the Gospel


22.6 — July/August 2009

Freedom & Propriety

Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment & Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth by Lori Branch


22.4 — May 2009

When Gentile Meets Jew

A Christian Reading of Ruth & the Hebrew Scriptures


21.10 — December 2008

Damage Control

Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged by Wayne Cristaudo


21.8 — October 2008

Viennese Faults

Sacred Spring: God and the Birth of Modernism in Fin de Siècle Vienna by Robert Weldon Whalen


21.7 — September 2008

Restoring a Reformer

Calvin, Participation, and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ
by J. Todd Billings
Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin
by Randall C. Zachma


20.7 — September 2007

Shades of Sheol

Resurrection and the
Restoration of Israel
by Jon D. Levenson


20.6 — July/August 2007

In His Sanctuary

Recalling the Hope of Glory: Biblical Worship from the Garden to the New Creation
Allen P. Ross


20.4 — May 2007

Bacon’s Back

The Religious Foundation of Francis Bacon's Thought
by Stephen A. McKnight


20.3 — April 2007

Water Works

Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism
& Reformation and Modern Rituals and Theologies of Baptism
by Bryan D. Spinks


20.2 — March 2007

Secular Saviors

Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe from the French
by Michael Burleigh


19.10 — December 2006

The French Invention

The Conversion of Imagination
by Matthew W. Maguire


19.4 — May 2006

Divine Light from Kings

Evangelical Ecumenism & the Gospel in the Story of Israel Divided


18.7 — September 2005

Pluralism's Pride

on Why All Religions Can’t Be Equal


18.4 — May 2005

Still Our Ancient Foe

Why Enmity Is Crucial to Peace


18.3 — April 2005

Reality . . . What a Concept!

Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson


18.2 — March 2005

The Christian Novelty

What Homer Could Not See, & Jane Austen Could


17.8 — October 2004

Intriguing Lessons

Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee


17.7 — September 2004

Godly Eros

on Christian Love in Marriage


17.6 — July/August 2004

The Real News from Lake Wobegon

on Charity, Conversation & Celebration


17.2 — March 2004

Blinded by Science

The Sense of Being Stared At
by Rupert Sheldrake


16.7 — September 2003

Cruciform Education

on College & the Gospel


16.1 — January/February 2003

This Great Stage of Fools

Christian Orthodoxy in Shakespeare’s King Lear


15.5 — June 2002

Virtual Evolution

on Media & the Nature of Science


15.4 — May 2002

Becoming Aeneas, Becoming Paul

Hell & Dante’s Education in Love


14.10 — December 2001

When Marriage Is Dying

on the Meaning of Christian Marriage



more from the online archives

30.3—May/June 2017

Three Trojan Horses

Insider Attempts to Disorient the Orthodox by Alexander F. C. Webster

18.3—April 2005

Lions of Succession

on Being a Free Narnian & the Joy of Subordination by Donald T. Williams

19.4—May 2006

Liberalism as Religion

The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides by Howard P. Kainz

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