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Carl R. Trueman

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 24, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Carl R. Trueman

    Burnham’s Popish Plot? - First Things (opens the original)

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    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

  2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Carl R. Trueman

    The Death of Pub Culture - First Things (opens the original)

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    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

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Carl R. Trueman

    The England I knew is gone (opens the original)

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    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

  4. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Carl R. Trueman

    The England I knew is gone (opens the original)

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    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

  5. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Carl R. Trueman

    The England I Knew Is Gone - First Things (opens the original)

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    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

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