Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
At Home on Revolutionary Road
One of the hoariest clichés of American popular culture is anti-suburban sentiment. Common throughout literature, film, and…
Bread of Poverty
In the Bible, the week-long holiday of Passover is usually called the festival of unleavened bread (matzot).…
Gnostic Politics
I recently met a medical student who was beginning her rotation in internal medicine. A special morning session…
Masters and Slaves
In the autumn of 1933, Alexandre Kojève announced to his class that history was over. He did…
Music That Is Never Heard
One of the most haunting images I know of comes from the last days of James Simon,…
The Gospel According to Dickens
In the popular understanding of Christmas, Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella looms large. A Christmas Carol seems to…
The Virtue of Jealousy
Jealousy is often confused with envy. Envy is coveting something someone else possesses. It is one of…
Woke Religion
American Awakening:Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Timeby joshua mitchell encounter, 296 pages, $28.99 We Americans…
Unborn Persons: Why Equal Protection Slept 102 Years
Defending my argument that the unborn are persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection…
The Founders of Black Lives Matter
In 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted of the charge of murdering Trayvon Martin, a black teenager. This…
The Infidelity of the Present
It did not require great perspicacity to predict some of the fevered negative reactions to the recent…
A Tale of Two Weddings
Royal weddings can be solemn or superficial, yet remain in either case of utmost importance. They are…
A Sword Against Spiritual Foes
Andrew Klavan’s novel The Emperor’s Sword completes the trilogy begun two years ago with Another Kingdom and…
Save the Date!
Save the date for the 2021 First Things Intellectual Retreat! Our theme is solidarity, and we hope…
Unsolitary Grandeur
The mountains are my church.” So said an old parishioner of mine who tended cattle in the…
