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The author is a pale-skinned woman in her twenties. She holds a male infant. There is a coffee up in front of her.

Madonnas in the Louvre

A Christmas Message from the Editor-in-Chief

Claire Lehmann

24 Dec 2024 · 5 min read

Podcast #265: Did Oliver Cromwell Really Kill Christmas?

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with David Crowther about seventeenth-century puritan attitudes toward yuletide debauchery—and about his acclaimed History of England podcast.

Quillette

24 Dec 2024 · 15 min read

Detail from cover of Summer of Fire and Blood by Lyndal Roper. Warriors on horseback, illustration.

When Germany Waged War on Itself

In a forthcoming book, Lyndal Roper argues that the German Peasants’ War of 1524–25 was a missed opportunity to enshrine a Christian theology centred on equality and brotherhood.

Jonathan Kay

18 Sep 2024 · 9 min read

Detail from Ignatius Loyola, by Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera. Oil painting. A man in bed with a book and cast on leg.

In the 22nd instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu used their nascent Quebec colony as a means to promote French global power and spread Christianity.

Greg Koabel

5 Sep 2024 · 20 min read

Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’

Many liberals are strangely eager to concede that liberal societies are morally and spiritually bankrupt without religion to give life meaning.

Matt Johnson

4 Jul 2024 · 25 min read

The New Political Christianity

Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values.

Adam Wakeling

30 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

Merry Christmas, Little Wolf

Christmas offers a chance to remind ourselves of the intellectual debt that our editors and writers owe to the Christian tradition.

The Quillette Editorial Board

24 Dec 2023 · 7 min read

The Return of the Creationists

How can we expect political sense or reason from people who cannot distinguish empirical reality from ancient myth?

Lawrence M. Krauss

14 Nov 2023 · 4 min read

Fantastical Beliefs in a Post-Christian Age

Without a faith, people must find new sources of meaning, new congregations to which they can belong.

Patrick Parkinson

20 Mar 2023 · 12 min read

Comparing Wokeness to Christianity Is an Insult to the Church

To the extent social-justice extremism resembles a puritanical faith, it’s one that provides believers with no grace and no hope of redemption.

Matthew Rowley

20 Feb 2023 · 8 min read

How the Christian Bible Became Separated Into ‘Old’ and ’New’

There is no firmly established technical term for the Bible in Judaism. The Hebrew scriptures may simply be referred to as “the Bible,” and the term “Jewish Bible” is sometimes used to distinguish it from the Christian Bible. In Hebrew, terms such as miqra (“scripture”) or kitve haqqodesh (“sacred texts”

Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter

12 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

A Better Way to Lead Christians Away from Intimate Partner Violence

Of those surveyed for the IPV report, 17 percent of self-described Anglicans said they’d experienced IPV in the last 12 months, as compared to 18 percent for the general population.

Andrew Judd

18 Oct 2021 · 8 min read

A Christmas Message from Quillette

In Christian history, Thessalonica is better known for the epistles that Paul the Apostle wrote to members of the city’s community, and which became part of the New Testament.