Carl R. Trueman
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 9
- Latest publication
- Sep 24, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for First Things
- Top 500K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest articles
Burnham’s Popish Plot? - First Things (opens the original)
Read excerpt
It has not been a happy few weeks for the Church of England. First, St. Paul’s Cathedral announced that it had struck a deal to let a London nightclub use Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece as a venue. Then, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the archbishop of Canterbury gave an interfaith award to Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, a Muslim cleric, only to withdraw it a few days later when comments he had made praising Osama bin Laden came to light—comments that a simple Google search would have turned
The Death of Pub Culture - First Things (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In London this summer, I walked past a pub sign near Trafalgar Square that read “Fully Air Conditioned. Serving Cold Beers.” Turning to my wife, I laughed: “I truly don’t recognize my own country anymore.” I was being (somewhat) facetious, but I recalled this incident when a few readers contacted me privately about my claim, in these pages, that the England I knew as a child has died. One expressed the belief that England is alive and well and that I need only go to a pub to see that—a very part
The England I knew is gone (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past âa foreign country.â This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and youth exposed me to a culture very different from the one that nurtured me. Growing up as a grammar schoolboy in 1970s and â80s England, I absorbed the importance of personal restraint; emotional self-control in public; privacy; acting with honesty and fairness, even to oneâs own hurt; and respecting
The England I knew is gone (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past âa foreign country.â This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and youth exposed me to a culture very different from the one that nurtured me. Growing up as a grammar schoolboy in 1970s and â80s England, I absorbed the importance of personal restraint; emotional self-control in public; privacy; acting with honesty and fairness, even to oneâs own hurt; and respecting
The England I Knew Is Gone - First Things (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past “a foreign country.” This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and youth exposed me to a culture very different from the one that nurtured me. Growing up as a grammar schoolboy in 1970s and ’80s England, I absorbed the importance of personal restraint; emotional self-control in public; privacy; acting with honesty and fairness, even to one’s own hurt; and respecting others r
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 500K sites
For First Things, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.