Science & Technology
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Evangelical America and IVF
In February, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that human embryos stored in an IVF clinic are unborn…
Ireland Tries and Fails to Erase Mothers
The people of Ireland have voted resoundingly not to remove the word “mother” from the Irish Constitution.…
Copulation Without Population
The Wanting Seedby anthony burgesspenguin, 288 pages, $12.29 Anthony Burgess’s satirical novel The Wanting Seed, first published…
Fiducia Supplicans Should Be Revoked
In March 2021, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published, under its former prefect, Cardinal…
Liberated from Dhimmitude
Three years ago, an Islamist sheikh in the Middle East met with a group of young Americans.…
When Feast and Fast Collide
You don’t want me to cut your toast with a little heart cookie cutter, do you?” I…
The Old Testament and Christian Theology
That I May Dwell Among Them:Incarnation and Atonement in the Tabernacle Narrativeby gary a. andersoneerdmans, 270 pages,…
More Confusion About Same-Sex Blessings
On December 18, the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) released Fiducia Supplicans. That…
A Fighting Publication
We made it! And then some. Our year-end fundraising goal was $1,000,000 from a thousand readers. That…
Why The Night of the Hunter Is a Christmas Movie
The 1955 thriller The Night of the Hunter may be one of the best dramatizations of spiritual…
The Undying People
The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us…
First Things and the Physical World
Today, I’m writing a check to First Things. I still write checks. For baffled readers born after…
After October 7
For I desire loving kindness, not sacrifices; devotion to God, rather than burnt offerings (Hosea 6:6). Seven…
Augustus and the Salvation of Rome
With the victory of Octavian Caesar, the heir of Julius Caesar, over Antony and Cleopatra at the…
Bring Back Four-Dimensional Bible Reading
The Bible teachers of the Western Middle Ages used an interpretive method known as the “quadriga,” or…
