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A selection of recent articles on this topic

An Interview with Timothy Keller

Anthony Sacramone

On any given Sunday in Manhattan, before and after theater matinees, visits to museums, and walks in…

Conceiving Parenthood

Jason Byassee

It has become fashionable in some theological and political quarters to eschew the term libera l in…

Hannah Montana

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Even if you go around with one or several fingers stuffed into each ear, you will not…

Slavery, Christianity, and Islam

Robert Spencer

It has become a feature of today’s atheist chic to shy bricks at Christianity for its record…

Apply to Be a Junior Fellow

Joseph Bottum

So, if you look up higher on this page, you’ll see that First Things is beginning its…

Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong

Jim DeMint and J. David Woodar

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter…

Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

When we speak about a nation’s culture, we mean the entire fabric of its common life, from…

Sarkozy and Secularism

Robert Royal

A few years ago, I was in the middle of giving a lecture in Paris about religious…

Are Protestants Heretics?

Edward T. Oakes

My lucubrations for today’s webposting would like to argue just this one single point: Doctrinal clarity is…

The Real First Citizen of Harlem

Lawrence Hogan

Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe are receiving the plaudits of critics for their bravura performances as Frank…

Death Threats and a Student Assaulted at Princeton

Ryan T. Anderson

Last Wednesday, at Princeton University, vicious emails were sent to four students and a professor, threatening their…

Francisco Nava Confesses

Ryan T. Anderson

Reports are coming in that Francisco Nava has confessed to Princeton Township Police. Apparently he was behind…

Lost in Translation

Stefan McDaniel

“Translations are like lovers: There are those that are beautiful but untrue¯and those that are true but…

The Bali Conference

Thomas Sieger Derr

The global warming/climate change noise machine has reached a crescendo this week with Al Gore’s trip to…

God in the Gallery

Matthew Milliner

Numerous illustrations—absorbing, beautiful ones—of both the Vulgate Bible and the Divine Comedy by the Surrealist painter Salvador…