Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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—December 2010
Policy Pollyanna Foreign-policy experts tend toward blindness to the moral aspects of what they analyze, and theologians…
Cub Scout
You know how sometimes there’s a moment when everyone In the moment is startled by what happened…
Fail, Britannia
Two weeks before Pope Benedict’s visit to the United Kingdom this September, former British prime minister Tony…
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—November 2010
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…
