Peter Wehner

The former president’s son told a crowd that the teachings of Jesus have “gotten us nothing.”

Christmas is meaningful, for those of us of the Christian faith, because it situates each of our lives — the joys and the sorrows, the hope and the despair, the dramatic and the mundane — in a larger narrative: Not only did God author it; the son of God became a protagonist within it.

Fifteen years after an accident almost claimed his life, the Christian author reflects on grace, forgiveness, and faith.

The aggressive, disruptive, and unforgiving mindset that characterizes so much of our politics has found a home in many American churches.

President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is the latest blunder in a foreign-policy record filled with them.

Political partisans are using social media to divide, dominate, disorient, and ultimately demoralize the people on the other side.

None of us can fully escape the downsides and the dark sides of our communities and our culture. The question is whether those who profess to be followers of Jesus show more of a capacity than they have recently to rise above them, to be self-critical instead of simply critical of others, to shine light into our own dark corners, even to add touches of grace and empathy in harsh and angry times.

Christians engaged in public life should model calm trust rather than panic and vitriol born of anxiety. We are called to be faithful, not successful.

The sudden departure of Russell Moore from the Southern Baptist Convention is forcing an overdue conversation about the crises of American Christendom.

EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner talks with the director of the National Institutes of Health about the extraordinary effort to develop a COVID vaccine in record time, what surprised him the most about the coronavirus, the investigation into the virus’s origins, and whether any collateral good might come from this horrible pandemic.

The Republican Party must counteract lies rather than indulge them.

Declaring fealty to a lie has become the single most important test of loyalty in today’s Republican Party.