Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Teacher’s Guide to Discussing Religion in the Classroom
While I was attending a professional development workshop for nearly two-hundred teachers several weeks ago, a particularly…
Eighteenth Century Roots of the Kasper Proposal
The proposal of Cardinal Walter Kasper about the possibility of remarried Catholics to receive communion has attracted…
ELEMENTARY Monasticism
I sometimes see reflections of my Eastern Orthodox faith in unexpected places. Take the hit CBS television…
The Power of “Heteronormativity”
Dear reader, First Things provides a place where faith has a voice. Will you make sure that…
Helping to Break the Cycle of Family Instability
Can people in bad, poor areas break out of the cycle of family instability that puts children…
A Witness, in Life and Letters
Born in Britain in 1923, and educated at Eton and Oxford, Philip Trower is a Catholic writer…
Torture and Witness to Life
I am a very proud alumnus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. I earned a bachelor’s degree…
Gnosticism 2.0
Humans typically situate their divinities at the border of the cosmos. The Israelites and Babylonians understood the…
Best Books (Not) of 2014
Many excellent books were published in 2014, but I did not read any of them. (My friend…
The New College Counterculture
Hip. Suave. Chic.” These are not the words from a car commercial. They are what Princeton student…
The Last Man and the First Man
Scanning half a dozen major journals for obituaries devoted to the most important mystery writer of our…
My Year in Reading
Every December since my college days a few friends and I have started an email thread to…
Time to Challenge No-Fault Divorce
High in the catalogue of social pathologies afflicting marriage and the family in America stands our system…
Freedom From Food
If vegetarianism is the dietary equivalent of pacifism, then Soylent is a form of dietary celibacy. Soylent…
A Biblical Vision of Marriage
Too often, we Evangelical Protestants have harmed our public witness and failed in fidelity by proclaiming the…
