Carl Trueman's Posts

Carl Trueman's Posts

While thinking about the #MeToo movement, and the prominent place being played in it by members of the Hollywood establishment, I have asked myself a couple of times, ‘Is this a root-and-branch reformation of the structure of modern morality or merely something superficial?’ To be more...
I am grateful to Todd for mentioning my upcoming DC lectures and also to RTS DC for their kindness in asking me to present some of the firstfruits of my Princeton work in a public forum. The two lectures are entitled as follows: Lecture 1: Acknowledging the Unacknowledged Legislators: From William...
Over at Marginalia , a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, my old pal Bruce Gordon of Yale Divinity School has put together a panel of scholars to offer reflections on the Reformation. Bruce's Introduction and Joseph Koerner's Art in a State of Siege are already available. My...
Such is the technological and moral temper of our times that a serious report with the bizarre title Our Sexual Future with Robots might scarcely raise an eyebrow in a world where the scientifically possible is fast becoming the only judge of the ethical and where celibate friendship is now the...
Lesbian feminists with a penchant for Nietzsche, Freud, and DeSade are not typically my type. Nevertheless, I fell in love with one in 1993 and have never quite recovered. I was then (as now) a happily married man and nothing untoward actually happened. But when I purchased a copy of Camille Paglia...
My inbox has been full of positive reactions to the PBS docudrama which aired last night. It is now available online here.
I recently had the pleasure of doing a podcast with Tony Payne, of Moore College, Sydney, in which we talked about the piety of the Reformation and Reformers. You can find it here . We also chatted briefly about the greatest literary description of the impact of Protestant piety upon the households...
This week's Spectator has a powerful, if very harrowing, article on prostitution and the harm it does . All pastors -- all Christians -- should read it. It reminded me of a podcast interview the MoS team did with Heather Evans, of Valley Against Sex Trafficking. That too is worth a listen for...
This week I am giving the Moore College Lectures in Sydney. The title of the series (with due homage to the great Peter Taylor Forsyth) is Reformation Preaching and the Modern Mind . My hope is to use the Reformers, especially Luther, as a source for building a theological understanding of what...
Over at his blog at Patheos, Professor Chris Gehrz has responded to my most recent post at First Things . Rod Dreher has provided a good reply but I offer here just a couple of brief comments. First, Professor Gehrz seems on the whole to think that I see the problem with the LGBTQ movement as one...