Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Permanent Things
The First Things 2022 Spring Campaign seeks to raise $600,000 by June 30. To make your contribution, visit www.firstthings.com/donate. In…
Vincent Phillip Muñoz on the Establishment of Religion
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Vincent Phillip Muñoz to talk about his May 27, 2022…
Pope Francis Does Not Understand the American Church
Someone has to say it publicly: The Holy Father does not understand the Catholic Church in the…
Denying and Defying our Human Bodies
I like to keep my finger on the pulse of the latest developments and trends in the…
A First Things Friendship
The First Things 2022 Spring Campaign seeks to raise $600,000 by June 30. To make your contribution, visit www.firstthings.com/donate. Friendship…
Are Southern Baptists Still People of the Book?
Southern Baptists, like most conservative evangelicals, are distinguished by the things we say we believe about the…
Six Modern Theologians Every Thoughtful Person Should Read
Modern theology is discourse about God in the context of modernity and the cultural ethos brought about…
Christopher Caldwell on Regime Change, American Style
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Christopher Caldwell to discuss his article from the June/July 2022…
Proposing a New Ritual for America’s Civic Religion
Disregard for the law, contempt for the “sober judgment of courts,” and outrages committed by mobs—these are…
On the Ukrainian Border
I doubt if we ever come back home,” says Helen, who until recently taught English to second- and…
Painting Over the Growth Chart
I had to squint to notice them. The linesthat bicker up to door jamb in the kitchen—…
Possum
On feet bare like a desert saint’s, it padsacross the porch and toward the dry cat foodmy…
Transfigured by the Word
Toward the end of his short life, Anton Chekhov penned one of his shortest stories, “The Student.”…
A Gentler Christendom
with a response byEdmund Waldsteinand reply by Ross Douthat How should contemporary Christians react to the decline of…
Regime Change, American Style
Watergate: A New Historyby garrett m. graffsimon & schuster, 832 pages, $35 The Watergate scandal began in…
