Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Harry Potter and the Christian Critics
A curious teapot tempest of the sort one only finds in the hothouse of Extremely Earnest Conservative…
The October Issue Has Arrived
The October issue of First Things is out, at last. I’ve spent the morning browsing in it,…
A Respectful Word on Episcopal Competence
The word competence has several meanings, most of which congregate around ability and authority . It is…
Mother Teresa Remembered
The unfortunate publicity and distortions to the point of calumny that have surrounded the publication of the…
Education and Our Witness to Christ
G.K. Chesterton once described lunatics as people who have lost everything but their reason. What he meant…
On Relativism
At first glance, the expression “the dictatorship of relativism” sounds like a paradox, maybe even an oxymoron.…
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…
