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Looking for Mary in Christmas Carols
It’s Christmas, so we’re singing carols. OK, it’s not Christmas, it’s really Advent, and “carol” has a…
A Mirror Darkly
Arts of Darkness:?American Noir and the Quest for Redemption by Thomas S. Hibbs Spence, 316 pages, $27.95…
The Pope and the United Nations
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen,…
Waking Up to Springtime
It’s a good day to be thinking about the Christian mission, this Day of the Conversion of…
Why Kim Jong-Il Should Fear AntonÃn Dvořák
Now that the New York Philharmonic has accepted the North Korean government’s invitation to perform in Pyongyang…
Death Threats and a Student Assaulted at Princeton
Last Wednesday, at Princeton University, vicious emails were sent to four students and a professor, threatening their…
Watching The Golden Compass
The book version of The Golden Compass begins with a bang. The movie version with a lecture.…
Mitt Romney on Faith in America
It was a powerful speech powerfully delivered. I don’t do political endorsements but am on record as…
John Paul II and the Jews
More than any other pope, John Paul II was the twentieth century’s greatest papal friend and supporter…
The Curious Case of Free Exercise
On June 1, 1925, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Pierce v. Society of the Sisters…
Conscience and Authority
Nothing is more common in life than a seeming tension between the freedom of individuals and the…
Purpose: Biological, Biblical, or Both?
In one of his early books, Untimely Meditations , Friedrich Nietzsche spins a tale that, in paraphrase,…
An Alien Grace
Dr. Who , television’s longest-running science fiction show, has returned to planet Earth after battling near extinction.…
A Man for All Reasons?
Back in February, I received a phone call from the journalist Paul Elie. I knew his name…
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…
