Volume 32 · Issue 1 · Winter 2026
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· Alan F. H. Wisdom
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Alan F. H. Wisdom

Alan F. H. Wisdom is Vice President of the Institute on Religion & Democracy and former Director of Presbyterian Action for Faith and Freedom. A PCUSA elder and member of the Theology Matters Board.

20201 essay
A Provocative Confession: Jesus as the Truth
A Provocative Confession: Jesus as the Truth

Wisdom summarizes Burnett's keynote at the 2020 TM conference: confessing Jesus as the truth has always been provocative, always contested, and never confessed for long without a cost. Burnett works…

20135 essays
The Political Dilemmas of Arab Christianity
The Political Dilemmas of Arab Christianity

Middle Eastern Christian minorities have a painful political history, and they've sometimes made the mess worse. Wisdom traces how Arab Christians moved between democratic statesmen like Charles Malik and the…

Arguing From Evidence: Why Support Israel?
Arguing From Evidence: Why Support Israel?

Evangelical support for Israel is often dismissed as purely theological, a matter of obscure end-times prophecies. Wisdom argues there's plenty of evidence that doesn't require special revelation: a small minority…

20121 essay
Two Views of Marriage
Two Views of Marriage

The 220th General Assembly's overtures to redefine marriage are the next logical step after 2011's repeal of fidelity-and-chastity ordination standards. Wisdom walks through the proposed changes, the constitutional process they…

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