Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Soros and Simony
Left-leaning financier George Soros is known for spending millions of dollars trying to influence U.S. presidential elections.…
A “Merciless Assault on Human Dignity”
The archbishop of Toronto is given to deprecating himself as “just a simple country cardinal.” In my…
From Atheism to First Things
At the time I came to First Things in mid-2014, I was just a couple of years…
The Troubling Legacy of Shūsaku Endō’s Silence
Shūsaku Endō’s Silence is now widely regarded as a modern classic. The initial reaction of Japanese Catholics,…
Christmas: “The Full Glorious Yes”
“Christmas comes even in the midst of rubble.” Those words were written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his…
A Christmas Eve Carol
When did I first become aware of Jesus Christ? Every idea has its own history. What was…
First Things, the Live Option
Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go “all-in” for…
Shūsaku Endō’s Swamp
Silence, the haunting 1966 Shūsaku Endō novel of faith, apostasy, and martyrdom in seventeenth-century Japan, tells the…
Advent in the Deathworks
Ryszard Legutko observes in The Demon in Democracy that the cultured despisers of religion will not rest…
Christmas and the Divine Proximity
In October 2001 I had a long conversation with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. It was but weeks after…
Suffering and Silence
I hope that Martin Scorcese’s Silence, premiering this week, will accurately capture the genius of Shusako Endo’s…
First Things, the National Pulpit
Since its first issues appeared more than twenty-five years ago, First Things has been hailed as the…
Sin in a Time of Accompaniment
While becoming a Christian, I was given a lot of space to figure out what needed to…
The Crisis of Christians in Egypt
On Monday, December 12, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi walked alongside the Coptic Pope Tawadros (Theodore) II…
Why are Catholic Academics Supporting the Four Cardinals?
On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a score of Catholic academics and pastors—of whom I am…
