Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Revoice and a Vocation of “Yes”
At the end of July, in a barely air-conditioned Presbyterian church in St. Louis, Missouri, beneath soaring…
Poland’s Christian Migrants
Across the West, an electoral backlash against large-scale immigration has contributed to the successes of populist movements…
Vacationing with Samuel Johnson
It is summer, and vacation is on our minds—either memories of vacations past, or plans for vacations…
Common Prayer, or Predictable Politics?
As Western society continues its relentless purge of the pre-political, the body count keeps mounting. Yesterday’s harmless…
The Real Modern Anti-Semitism
A Brezhnev-era joke asked whether it was a crime to say that the party chairman was an idiot.…
Giving Your Testimony
The national consensus seems to be that more is better. Hamburgers? Make them gargantuan, to the point…
Demons of the Machine
This article contains spoilers for the film Hereditary. In his preface to Hostage to the Devil, Malachi Martin…
Thanks From the Future
You’re the best! First Things readers are intellectually engaged, morally and religiously committed, and very generous. We…
Acts and Us
The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during…
Taking the Lead
My staff tells me we can’t enroll in “Facebook donate.” That’s the direct-donation feature allowing users to…
The Truth Is Not Enough
Some years ago, Rusty Reno invited me to a seminar on the subject of transhumanism and its…
Taking on the Big-Money Left
The other day we learned that the Southern Poverty Law Center, which classifies defenders of religious liberty…
State Irreligion
In the May 1892 issue of Le Banquet, a young Marcel Proust wrote a spirited condemnation, excerpted…
Punching Above Our Weight
In my two years working at First Things, it has come to my attention that many readers…
Poland and the Future of Europe
As a child growing up in the Polish diaspora, I often visited the land of my forefathers…
