Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Wrapping Up 2008
Ah, the books of 2008: Who can number them? All About the Beat and The Art of…
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…
Causes Beyond Left or Right
That April 8, 1966, cover of Time magazine became something of a cultural marker. It was completely…
Theology After Newton
The Historicity of Nature: Essays on Science and Theology by Wolfhart Pannenberg Templeton, 272 pages, $29.95 Wolfhart…
Paradise
I wonder what the counterpart Of the patriot is in Heaven Or is Our Father well pleased…
A Classic Case
History Lesson: A Race Odyssey by Mary Lefkowitz Yale University Press, 208 pages, $25 In History Lesson…
Orthodoxy at a Hundred
G. K. Chesterton’s most renowned book is a hundred years old. Orthodoxy was first published in London…
Wind River Justice
Alan riding his first horse from Big Sandy to celebrate his thirty-seventh birthday: his mare reared in…
The Odyssey of the Odyssey
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey by Edith Hall Johns Hopkins University Press,…
Letters—November 2008
Terror & Tragedy In “Amis Amiss” (June/July 2008), Alan Jacobs asks, “When it is time to talk…
iPhones Have Consequences
In a Doonesbury cartoon of recent vintage, Zipper, nephew to the 1960s slacker Zonker Harris, sits in…
A Stern Warning to Canada
If you want peace, withdraw your geese.
At Lansallos
The remnant of an ancient Celtic cross worn smooth by a millennium of weather lies barely visible…
