Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Astounded as I was by the phenomenal bestselling success of Rhonda Byrnes’ The Secret ¯gobsmacked by the…
The Last Stand of Rowan Williams
Summer is almost over, which for most of us means putting away the beach umbrella and suntan…
God’s Different Warriors
Angry protestors line the sidewalk of a San Francisco street. Behind barricades and a line of policemen,…
Saint Duncan of Wall Street
“What we need is a Saint Duncan of Wall Street.” I heard the phrase echo through the…
Briefly Noted 207
Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in Modern Adolescence by Mark D. Regnerus Oxford Univ. Press, 304 pages,…
Land of Lincoln: A Review
In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…
The False Choice Between Development and Daughters
Right now, in almost any corner of the world, a baby girl is being killed just because…
Mugabe and the Churches
Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, claims to be a man of faith¯and with some reason. He…
A Criterion for Compromises
Our friends over at the New Criterion have put out a big anthology including the editors’ choice…
The Malling of Mecca
It’s big. No, I mean really BIG. And I’m not talking about the Burj Dubai , which…
The Seamless Garment Reconfigured
Hawks and social conservatives in the United States find themselves in a delicate coalition that will either…
Why Atheism Is Selling … Books
In his June/July First Things article, ” Remembering the Secular Age ,” along with emails he’s been…
How to Pray
As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much…
Mansfield on Atheism
Here at First Things , we’ve managed, more or less, to avoid talking about the new atheism…
Blame It on W
We play a game in my family called Blame It on W. At first, we were a…
