Bethel McGrew
Bethel McGrew is an American freelance writer and cultural critic. She has published in The Spectator, National Review, First Things, Plough, and many other outlets. She has also appeared in print under her former pen name, Esther O'Reilly. Her twitter is @BMcGrewvy
Will the real historical Jesus please stand up?
You can’t escape Lewis’s trilemma
The battlefield priest
Heroism, compassion and enduring hope: the lost war letters of Canon Laurie
Tom Holland: A Christian hero?
Marketing Tom Holland’s ‘Dominion’ as a Christian product would be a kiss of death in the UK, but it works across the pond
Reflections on Narnia
After 75 years, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe remains a relatable classic
Grasping for the divine
The church has lost its way but our need for lasting purpose remains
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
