Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Conservative Jurisprudence Must Change
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Hadley Arkes joins the…
Books From a Parallel Time Stream
It’s uncanny how quickly books and their authors are forgotten. This is true even of those who…
Grimm Indeed
On June 28, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Gloucester County School Board v.…
Publishing Priorities
Our Christian publishing houses are in rough shape. They are the poor living in the dust, the…
A Sacred Right
Religious Liberty in Crisis:Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty by ken starrnencounter, 234 pages, $26.99 For…
Catholic Politicians, Abortion, and the Eucharist
On June 17, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to draft a teaching document on…
A Narrow Victory for Religious Liberty
Last week, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Catholic adoption services case, Fulton v.…
Arguments, Not Sound Bites
I have been writing for First Things since 2013. The intervening years have been an interesting time…
The Critical Eye of Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm died on Wednesday, June 16, the same day that the New Yorker signed its first…
A Time of Reconsolidation
The last sixteen months have been extraordinary. In April and May 2020, the pandemic precipitated the cessation…
Christians, Beware the Blame Game
In 2014, I wrote an article for First Things entitled “A Church For Exiles.” My purpose was…
Faithfully Generous
I joined First Things because I firmly believe that it is America’s most influential journal of religion…
Events Roundup—6.7.21
ONLINE Jacques Maritain: Political Theology for a Pluralistic AgeJune 8, 10, 15, and 17 The Morningside Institute…
What’s in Store for Your Sons
In the 1970s, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson playfully warned mothers about the downsides of the cowboy…
Worst Cases
Getting old can be dreary in some respects, but there are compensations. On the downside, you forget…
