American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The UCC’s Ethical Suicide Parlor
On September 18, United Church of Christ minister Kristi Denham announced that a new organization of clergy…
Parsing Abortion Statistics and the Law
The report made headlines across the globe, but even those generally sympathetic to its conclusions acknowledged the…
A Man for All Reasons?
Back in February, I received a phone call from the journalist Paul Elie. I knew his name…
The Spirit of Timidity, and How Christians Pray the Psalms
The streets of New York are clergy-friendly. In my limited experience, more so than other world cities.…
Who Is John Galt? And Does Anyone Care Anymore?
Tomorrow, October 12, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged .…
The November Issue of First Things Has Arrived
“Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,” writes Alan Jacobs in the new issue…
God Cannot Be Understood, Only Adored
Whatever one thinks about whether it is possible for Christian theology to be systematic—and there are good…
The Love on Which the World Depends
It has been suggested to me that this wedding homily might be of more general interest. Perhaps…
A New Song from the Old World
Imagine a book on Renaissance art without any pictures. And I don’t mean without illustrations, I mean…
Saving Veronica
On a trip to Crete last March to research onetime Venetian colonies, our class of twelve wandered…
Does Doubt Belong to Faith?
The recent publication of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., with its frank…
First Things Issues (So to Speak)
A longtime subscriber has more than a decade of past issues of First Things ¯but lacks the…
Anglican Confusion
No one can deny there is plenty of disagreement in the Anglican Communion, but right now straightforward…
What the Apostles Saw
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham Eerdmans, 538 pages, $32 Modern…
After the Dinner
The friend who tells me I’m a selfish ass / is drunk, so maybe I should let…
