Religion: A Bad Prescription for America
Though faith may provide comfort to some, it cannot produce reliable facts about nature that can be used to repair a divided populace.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 9 min read
Christianity
A collection of 15 posts
Madonnas in the Louvre
A Christmas Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Claire Lehmann
· 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
· 15 min read
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
· 9 min read
Return of the Jesuits
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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.
Quillette
· 5 min read
The Onward March of Christian Political Power
So the Christian Right, one of society’s most formidable voting blocs, is shaped to a significant degree by charismatic Christian personalities, politically-active conservative organizations, and right-wing media.
Berny Belvedere
· 9 min read