Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Life in the Little Apple
My wife and I have a commuter marriage: she lives and works in Valparaiso, Indiana, and I…
Seminary Sanity
When you start out at seminary with an eye toward entering the ministry, the first thing they…
Israel and the Nations
Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election by scott bader-saye wipf and stock, 202 pages,…
Letters—June/July 2000
Mormons and (Other?) Christians Richard John Neuhaus’ essay “Is Mormonism Christian?” (March) is disappointing. As a first…
Forgive Us Our Trespasses…
Early returns tend to vindicate, at least in part, the worries of cardinals and others when John…
J. S. Bach in Japan
Twenty-five years ago when there was still a Communist East Germany, I interviewed several boys from Leipzig’s…
The Politics of the Id
My first political epiphany came at the movies. I was about thirteen years old, and in those…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 104 (June/July 2000): 12, 14, 34, 44, 52. The Charmed Life This…
Suicide and the Alienated Life
Walter Benjamin once said that authors should write the article or book they looked for in the…
By the Blood of His Cross
The Public Square There is this odd thing that all the social science data agree that the…
Conservative Confusions
John Stuart Mill famously labeled conservatism the stupid party. Whatever was the case then, that hardly holds…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 103 (May 2000): 29, 47. Desert Confirmation They say these people are…
Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil
Perhaps the enduring subtext in the evolution of moral education in America, and its continuing story to…
Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind
Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind by james e. person rowman & littlefield, 284…
Letters—May 2000
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 103 (May 2000): 2-6. Market or Moral Failure? The seductive appeal of…