Matthew Cantirino

Among Thorns Brad Miner,  The Catholic Thing In Quest of Intellectual Community Eric Miller,  Books & Culture The First Lady of Fleet Street Susan Hertog,  Jewish Ideas Daily A Question Science Will Never Answer John Horgan,  Scientific American Life After Television . . . . Continue Reading »

We’re pleased to inform our online readers that William Doino will become the newest regular columnist for the First Things website. Doino is a writer on Church history, particularly issues of the twentieth century, including the papacy of Pius XII and the Second Vatican Council. He is widely . . . . Continue Reading »

GetReligion , a site which is perhaps the most astute watchdog of the media’s coverage of religion today, highlights a recent example of remarkably solid reporting. Calling it a refreshing change of pace from the raft of screeds which have populated editorial pages over the past week, Mollie . . . . Continue Reading »

The Possibility of the Non-Theocratic Regime Thaddeus Kozinski, Ethika Politika Reclaiming the Cultural Foundation of Money Bruce Davis, ResPublica Challenging Sacred Assumptions Peter Wehner, Commentary A Baptist Theology of the Body? Ken Camp, Associated Baptist Press The Most Religiously . . . . Continue Reading »

Any student of American history will recognize that some our nation’s most significant changes have come about as the fruit of religious revival, and that these “awakenings,” which erupted every few decades or so, play a key role in renewing and sustaining our national life. In . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert Bellah’s recent tome Religion in Human Evolution  attempts to revive the grand narrative approach to history (which has been in a bit of a rough patch since, say, 1989) but it does so more-or-less in the context of a scientific theory of evolution, and it places religion . . . . Continue Reading »

French Elections: Far Left and Far Right Gavin Hewitt,  BBC A Question for Time Magazine Kathryn Jean Lopez,  Patheos Has Religious Freedom Lost Its Cool? Mikhail Bell,  Institute on Religion & Democracy Evangelicals’ Sea Change on Conversion Gordon T. Smith,  . . . . Continue Reading »

Three writers at The Gospel Coalition  ( Ray Van Neste , Eric Bancroft , and Kenneth J. Stewart ) debate the issue of communion frequency in Protestant churches. From Van Neste’s essay: . . . in our man-centered age where so many services are shamefully devoid of any meaningful reference . . . . Continue Reading »

Chuck Colson in Grave Condition Reuters/Washington Post Cardinal Dolan: One of 100 ‘Most Influential’ People Jon Meacham, Time What’s Wrong with Rights? Chase Madar, The American Conservative Descendents of Tolkien and Dickens to Collaborate Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Ross . . . . Continue Reading »

Sergius Bulgakov, widely regarded as the greatest Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century (calling him the von Balthasar of the East would not be wide of the mark), was the kind of religious thinker only that century could produce. A blend of martyr, mystic, and missionary, he sought to defend the deposit of faith while upending its traditional modes of expression… . Continue Reading »