Sex in the Frame
I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating to revisit this moral, cultural…
April 2025
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April 2025 Print Edition
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
In Search of Turkish Delight
Elon’s Family Values
A battle has broken out on the American right. Two visions of what it means to have children…
Goldilocks Protestantism
Imagine a world without Protestantism. I don’t mean a world without Christians who are neither Catholic nor…
The Return of Strong Religion
The wind has shifted. People want hard religion, not easy religion. They seek out communities that are…
Radical Disembodiment
Super Bowl ads are a great American art form. Paying eight million dollars or more for a…
Conversations
The End of White Privilege
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. A.J. Rice joins in to discuss his recent book, The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to…
Conversations
Fulton Sheen: Master Evangelist
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Cheryl Hughes joins in to discuss her recent book, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: Convert Maker. The conversation…
Conversations
Woke vs. The Left
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. David Rieff joins in to discuss his recent book, Desire and Fate. The conversation is embedded below….
Is Christianity No Longer in Decline?
Lessons from the Decline of Protestant Churches
Reports of the financial struggles and decline in membership among large American denominations have become so commonplace…
My Family and Other Gnostics
A funny story is almost never improved by an assiduous concern for facts. Case in point: Gerald…
It’s Time to Defund Planned Parenthood
What do you call a billion-dollar corporation that annually swallows millions in government funding but fails to deliver comprehensive…
The Henry J. Hyde Federal Building, Please
DuPage County is one of the collar counties bordering Chicago. For years, it had the great good…
Who Owns the Embryos?
For Emily Ballou, it seemed like the perfect solution. She had always wanted to adopt a child…
The Pillar and Foundation of Truth: A Statement by Evangelicals and Catholics Together
As the People of God, the Church is the temple of the Holy Spirit, Christ’s very body…
AI Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing
Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term covering many beliefs about the powers possessed by computers, both now…
Confession Eclipsed
It is often said that the end of Latin as the Church’s liturgical language was the most…
Sex in the Frame
I doubt the readers of First Things need persuading that pornography is bad. It might feel invigorating…
No Country for Christendom
The Armagnac was low in the bottle when my host erupted on the subject of American empire.…
Honeymoon Road Signs on I-10 East in Arizona
Zero visibility possible,you read aloud. The logic’s water-tight:there’s always a good chance for lack of sight. We…
The End of Politics
The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is…
The End of March
Stands of bearded iris, purple in mourningSpring up, early, among their cool green speartips,Pale and pointed, palmlike,…
Jurassic Lark
How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science by david hone…
Fighting the Noonday Devil
For most of the modern era, Christian apologists have emphasized the role of pride as the primary…
Jesus the Muslim Hippie
Many Christians and other non-Muslims who want to understand the Christ of Islam turn to the Qur’an,…
The Cross and the Machine
“Europeans didn’t only disinherit Aztecs and Incas. Continuously, since the sixteenth century, we have been disinheriting ourselves.”—John…
My Madness
My brother Peter was a wondrous boy, the youngest, brightest, and bounciest of three kids: IQ 165,…
Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button
All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of…
