Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Caesar’s Thumb
At the close of the last century, as the reckoning was drawn up in Europe for the…
Bearing Better Witness
When even Christianity Today is asking, “Is the Gay Marriage Debate Over?” the issue has become so…
The Perfect Human
The assembled photographers stand on the concrete ramp outside the United Nations building on September 23 and…
Perfect Harmony
Rabbi Akiva taught that all the Bible’s songs are holy, and Song of Songs is the holy…
Whit Stillman is Running Late
Whit Stillman wants to meet at the Harvard Club at exactly noon, on the eleventh day of…
Letters
Policy Pollyanna Foreign-policy experts tend toward blindness to the moral aspects of what they analyze, and theologians…
College Descriptions
American UniversityWashington, D.C.ft rating: academic 27.9,social 31.3, religious 16.4Established by Congress in 1893, American University quickly became…
Mandatory Chapel
Add up the music conservatories and the seminaries, the enormous land-grant universities and the tiny Bible colleges,…
Setting the Course
Dangerous Christians There are different ways to respond to a crisis. The first is to bellyache about…
Letters
The Politics of Life My own take on abortion politics is somewhat different from Joseph Bottum’s (“The…
What the Father Came to See
How old the story is, we have come to see, and yet how true. The kid’s back…
College Rankings
From Abilene Christian University in Texas to Zion Bible College in Massachusetts: For this survey, First Things…
Two Souls in One Breast
The German Genius by peter watson harpercollins, 964 pages, $35 What went wrong in Germany? How did…
Schools of Thought
It’s not easy to answer, the simple question of where to study theology. Interests, backgrounds, convictions, and…
Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant by Alan Jacobs
Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant by alan jacobs eerdmans, 154 pages, $18 Wayfaring, Jacobs’ new collection of…
