Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Pete Seeger: The Communist Consumers Loved
During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to…
New Year’s Habits
New Year’s Resolutions tend to focus on new skills and habits to acquire. This is the year…
2013 in Review
As 2013 draws to a close I’d like to look back at the past year for First…
Punk Rock Catholicism
“In many and various ways,” the Letter to the Hebrews tells us, does God reveal Himself. I…
Lynne Hybels, Evangelicals, and Israel
There is a small but growing movement among evangelicals against unique friendship for Israel, embodied by the…
Apple Graveyard
Jon Berkeley’s illustration for a January 2010 Economist cover depicts Steve Jobs as a modern Moses with…
Seinfeld’s Comedy of Custom
A frenzied George, who has promised to pick up Jerry from the airport, is anxiously checking the…
The Bizarre War on Christmas Debate
This year’s renewal of the usually pedantic “Keep Christ in Christmas” discourse had a few interesting twists.…
Cultural Anorexia: Doubting the Decline of Faith in Fiction
When Dana Gioia’s essay “Can Poetry Matter?” appeared in The Atlantic in 1991, it galvanized a national…
How to Read a Book: Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
Here’s a conversation that you will have if you, at any point in your life, read a…
Preparing for His Coming
Advent looks back to celebrate the coming of the Son of God in human flesh. As Advent…
Discrimination Against Christians?
Christians are facing more and more difficulties in Western society. Every day, especially in Europe, churches and…
What’s Wrong with “Family Values”
In a recent talk at the Wheaton Theology Conference, the Kenyan Anglican Archbishop David Gitari told of…
New York Kippah Count
Jews have been counting themselves since the time of Moses. The Bible provided an exact figure of…
Fatherhood After Christmas
My friend’s six-year-old son wanted to be God the Father in the Christmas pageant. He reasoned that…
