EREphraim Radner

1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Ephraim Radner

   Creedal Orthodoxy Won’t Save Us - First Things (opens the original)

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   Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in their common judgment that liberalism has reached a dead end. Something new is emerging. Maybe. My sense is that we’re seeing simple exhaustion. To be sure, an enervating weariness can lead to its own developments. But when it comes to the long-standing issues of sexuality—the nub of our culture wars—“development” is usually a bad thing. I have colleagues, friends, and former students who are instinctively

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2. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Ephraim Radner

   Holding Things Together - First Things (opens the original)

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   So many streets around me are ugly. I do a lot of walking and jogging. I notice the trash, the little (or often larger) piles of dust and dirt lying along the curbs, broken pavement, scattered weeds. Occasionally, if I stop to tie my shoe, or drop something and go looking, I can peer into the midst of this debris. Its bits are fascinating, swept together as tiny signs of our society, our world, our lives: scraps of fast-food wrappers or candy boxes, plastic bourbon bottle caps, cigarette and vap

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