Will a reflexively intolerant progressivism prevail, or is it possible that goodwill, liberal pluralism can frame what happens in American public life as homosexuality and transgenderism become mainstreamed? Like The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher, who has been an online hero documenting the pace of cultural change around American sexual mores, I am pessimistic at the [...]

As I mentioned in a previous book review, the study of memory has exploded in the past few decades. This book is the result of a collaboration between the Theology departments based at Durham University in England (where I am currently studying) and Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. Back in 2004, these two [...]

What happens to a people when they stop following God? As Gideon is the turning point of the book of Judges, so Abimelech is the initial onslaught, the harbinger of all that will follow, down to the darkest of details. There is a puzzle here that’s not easy to solve—the text of the Scriptures certainly [...]

Difficulties in dating fossils have plagued anthropology since its inception. In 1856, a fossilised skeleton discovered in a small cave in the Neander Valley in Germany became the first hominin ever recognised by science. Quarry workers uncovered the fossils while clearing out a limestone cave, but before the bones were flagged as important, the workers [...]