Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Lenten Politics of Measure for Measure
At the beginning of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, withdraws from the city…
I Fear I Hate the Homeless
Last year, a week before Thanksgiving, a homeless man stabbed three people to death in Manhattan. The…
Lent and the Purification of Memory
On December 20, 2002, I was at lunch in the papal apartment when the wide-ranging conversation John…
Hide the Crucifix or Lose Your Job
In January, Marisol Arroyo-Castro, a public school teacher in New Britain, Connecticut, with over three decades of…
Killing Time
On October 29, 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre delivered his lecture “Existentialism Is a Humanism,” a declaration of independence…
Lurid and Marginal
“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong,” Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch told an interviewer in 2015, “and…
Letter to a Young Bishop
Your Excellency, I’m writing only because you asked. I have so far successfully avoided the role of…
The Re-Churching of Men
Church life in America has been majority-female for some time. According to Pew Research, women make up…
Mind the Gap
I grew up in a religiously sympathetic, if not always actively practicing, household. During my toddler years, my…
Dostoevsky’s Credo
What does it mean to believe something? Is it possible for a person to profess an idea…
Finding Faith in the Fragments
When your parents were married for seventeen years before you were born, as mine were, you spend…
God and Man at Wheaton
Wheaton College once produced some of the boldest Christian voices in America. With graduates like Billy Graham,…
Purity Culture Isn’t the Problem
The last decade witnessed a sharp turn against the so-called purity culture that emerged in the 1990s…
The Future of First Things
I hope you like our new website. Our content remains first-rate. Now, the internet delivers timely and…
Thinking Twice About Re-Enchantment
Since the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, the story goes, we’ve lived more and more in a…
