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
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 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. Quillette 24 Dec 2019 · 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 22 Oct 2018 · 9 min read
