Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
All We Like Sheep
A statue of the risen Lord, / No more than four feet tall, / Composed of resin…
Play American
Just seventy years ago, a Fortune poll reported that 62 percent of Americans listened to classical music,…
King David
In a provocative and profound essay in this magazine (“A King in Israel,” May 2010), the late…
Hast Thou Considered the Heptapod?
Communication between different ideological worlds has never been more necessary and never seemed more impossible. This is…
First Things in the Year Ahead
It’s been a remarkable year. The success of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump signal significant…
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…
