Life of Faith

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Our Mission Against Despair

Ramona Tausz

The work of dying well,” wrote Richard John Neuhaus , “is, in largest part, the work of…

Dreams of Progress Meet Ethnic Cleansing

Dan Hitchens

How was the world misled by Aung San Suu Kyi? The question has often been asked since…

Freedom and First Things

R. R. Reno

What is the mission of First Things? We have a stock answer: To advance a religiously informed…

Atheists and Their Beliefs

K. E. Colombini

Like Twain, Gandhi, and Einstein, Chesterton is misquoted almost as often as he is quoted accurately. One…

Reclaiming the Center of Evangelicalism

Dale M. Coulter

Recent developments in the Southern Baptist Convention have been difficult to watch: the destructive pastoral advice issued…

An All-Too-Moveable Feast

Charlotte Allen

We American Catholics are now in the post-Easter Season of the Bollixed Holy Days. One of them—occurring…

Myth of Disenchantment

Peter J. Leithart

Once upon a time, magic was a mighty force, but not anymore. Once Britain was filled with…

Cheap Joy

Kenneth Colston

On Holy Wednesday this year, I attended a local Catholic book club meeting on The Book of…

The Sins of Chick-fil-A

Charlotte Allen

Recently, New Yorker contributor Dan Piepenbring noted with horror that Chick-fil-A, the chicken-sandwich chain that has been…

#BillHybelsToo?

Aimee Byrd

The multiple recent allegations of sexual impropriety lodged against megachurch pastor Bill Hybels are provoking heated discussion…

A Diagnosis of Moralosis

John Waters

An odd thing happened in Ireland on Easter Sunday. A politician, a senator who had been chairperson of…

Who May Receive Communion?

Gerhard Cardinal Müller

This is the fifth in a series of reflections by Cardinal Müller on questions of present importance…

A Touching and Feeling Faith

Lauren Rae Konkol

Everything Happens for a Reason:And Other Lies I’ve Lovedby kate bowlerrandom house, 208 pages, $26 If the…

Heresy at a Jesuit College

Charlotte Allen

On Easter Monday, Inside Higher Education, an online trade paper covering academia, published an article about a…

Rebuild Christchurch Basilica

Stephen Schmalhofer

In February 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and damaging dozens of…