Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Christianity Face to Face with Islam
No event during the first millennium was more unexpected, more calamitous, and more consequential for Christianity than…
January Letters 224
The Life of Humanae VitaeMary Eberstadt (“ The Vindication of Humanae Vitae ,” August/September 2008) does an…
O Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by julian barnesknopf, 256 pages, $24.95 Death has many masks. He comes…
The “American” Religion
The great contest is over the culture, the guiding ideas and habits of mind and heart that…
Wrapping Up 2008
Ah, the books of 2008: Who can number them? All About the Beat and The Art of…
Lifeboat Ethics
Since I’m a utilitarian, I’ll eat the vegetarian.
Self-Portrait at Fifty
None of this can be denied: crabby, flabby, full of pride; hypertensive, pensive, snide; slowing, growing terrified.
Effable
1 Where are words when not yet spoken: on the tongue, in the mind, perhaps in air,…
Natural Law Revealed
I The relations among nature, reason, and revelation are mysterious for both Protestants and Catholics. Consider John…
A Governing Shari’a
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im Harvard University Press,…
What to Give a First Things Reader
Seeking ideas for presents this year, we asked several of our well-read friends and contributors for recommendations…
So, I spent Columbus Day…
So, I spent Columbus Day weekend writing ballads. Or, at least, browsing around in books of ballads,…
For Pro-Lifers, A New Day
The worst aspect of an Obama presidency, I have been telling friends for months, will be his…
Singing to the Penguins at the Memphis Zoo
Even before we passed the bears (who sat Like mourners in a church, their great brown paws…
Causes Beyond Left or Right
That April 8, 1966, cover of Time magazine became something of a cultural marker. It was completely…
