Sarah Hinlicky Wilson was a junior fellow here at First Things before heading off to the seminary, and we miss hermostly because she was such good company, but also because she could do things like this: a run through the Bible , picking the one verse in each book that best exemplifies and . . . . Continue Reading »
” Could the U.S. become Argentina? ” asks the Washington Times , and Instapundit links to a similar discussion from the Washington Post in 2005. It’s a complicated question for economists to figure out, involving debt levels as percentage of GNP, but maybe there’s a simpler . . . . Continue Reading »
What would it be like to eat lentil soup made from lentils older than the ones Jacob used to trick Esau out of his birthright? According to Turkey’s Today’s Zaman, we may soon find out: 4,000-year-old lentils ready to be planted in . . . . Continue Reading »
It is possible that the most important address related to the recent N.T. Wright and Together for the Gospel conferences was given at neither, but was instead written afterward by the astute and unassuming Brett . . . . Continue Reading »
The National Gallery of Art is, until the end of May, home to more than twenty Spanish devotional pieces of artmany exhibited for the first time outside their permanent homes in churches and monasteriesas part of the exhibit The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, . . . . Continue Reading »
As competition for pulpits increases there are fewer and fewer opportunities available for domestic ministry. Bible colleges and seminaries are cranking out trained pastors by the hundreds and thousands, but these men have no churches where they might serve. Those who do serve are often plagued by . . . . Continue Reading »
The following definitions are not from Webster’s or the OED:LAX Security, prop. n., the guards at the Los Angeles Airport. Semicolonoscopy, n. an invasive exploration of the rules of punctuation. Thesaurus, n. the only creature to survive the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years . . . . Continue Reading »
Anyone who attends the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. cant help but see the plain fact that the pro-life movement is young, enthusiastic, and as varied in social makeup as any group that marches on Washington. Perhaps this is the reason the nations media perennially fail to . . . . Continue Reading »
I believe in wide open speech and the rough and tumble of public debate, particularly about important political or social controversies and public persons—me included. That doesn’t mean, of course, that I believe in libel. Intentionally making false claims about a . . . . Continue Reading »