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Table Talk with Richard John Neuhaus and Friends
This article is part of our 2023 year-end campaign series, featuring reflections from prominent authors on why First Things matters. To make your year-end campaign gift now, visit firstthings.com/donate. Two...
Peter Brown’s Quest for the Supernatural
Journeys of the Mind:A Life in Historyby peter brownprinceton, 736 pages, $45 Peter Brown’s latest book is a quest narrative. It’s a genre-defying personal account of the life, work,...
An Evangelical Bible Translation
Another English translation of the Bible recently appeared: the New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition (NRSVue). While presented as an “updated edition” rather than a new translation, NRSVue incorporates...
Faith and Love in Tandem
I’m the pastor of small church in Raleigh, North Carolina. Last Sunday, with great reluctance, we had online services for the first time. It was not an easy decision....
Christian Life In Plague-Time
The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions of free assembly and travel raise the question: How do Christians deal with such crises? In 1527, Dr. Martin Luther addressed similar...
CoWo, NoGrow
Back in 1998, at a theological conference, I heard a pastor (we’ll call himn Pastor V.) of my denomination (the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod) recountn what had driven him out...
