Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Offense of Piety
The intemperate, even violent tone in recent criticisms of faith is quite striking. Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens: They…
Crazy for God
Someone must have arranged this. It’s as if Frank Schaeffer’s book Crazy for God was designed to…
The Cross Under the Crescent
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque:Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam by sidney…
Religious Freedom Upside Down (and a word on William F. Buckley Jr.)
Steven D. Smith, professor of law at the University of San Diego, has an admirable review of…
The Pope and the United Nations
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen,…
The Death of the Grown-up
My reflexive response on reading Diana West’s The Death of the Grown-up has been to keep announcing…
An Interview with Timothy Keller
On any given Sunday in Manhattan, before and after theater matinees, visits to museums, and walks in…
Conceiving Parenthood
It has become fashionable in some theological and political quarters to eschew the term libera l in…
Hannah Montana
Even if you go around with one or several fingers stuffed into each ear, you will not…
Slavery, Christianity, and Islam
It has become a feature of today’s atheist chic to shy bricks at Christianity for its record…
Apply to Be a Junior Fellow
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
On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter…
Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics
When we speak about a nation’s culture, we mean the entire fabric of its common life, from…
Sarkozy and Secularism
A few years ago, I was in the middle of giving a lecture in Paris about religious…
Are Protestants Heretics?
My lucubrations for today’s webposting would like to argue just this one single point: Doctrinal clarity is…
