Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“Oh God”
I’ve written several times in this space about the “discourse of fear” that gets attention in many…
The Woman Taking On Big Porn
Pornhub wishes you a happy Valentine’s Day. To celebrate the Hallmark holiday, the online-smut giant is opening…
Desiderata
If you’ve been a magazine reader for roughly 65 years and an editor assigning book reviews (among…
Theological Fraud
One benefit of doing academic work in accounting ethics, as I have done, is that one gets…
A Protestant Tribute to Archbishop Chaput
A Catholic archbishop, a Presbyterian professor, and his wife walk into a bar.” While this might sound…
The Case for Yellow Checks
Bishop Robert Barron, the Los Angeles auxiliary and Catholic media personality, recently suggested to the National Catholic…
Identity as Ideology
Like many persons possessing limited insight into the future, I had supposed that, with the collapse of…
Building to No Purpose
Together we can shape the future.” So proclaimed a construction fence poster at the gargantuan new Hudson…
Homesick for Eternity
In 2018, Barack Obama urged his Facebook followers to read Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen. We…
Loving to Know
In many spheres, the question not just of what we know but of how we know is…
American Pilgrimage
We began just after daybreak. One by one, the brigades filed out of the parking lot, each…
Notre-Dame de Paris, by Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855)
Notre Dame is quite old: one will see it perhaps / Still bury that Paris it saw…
Julian of Norwich in Seclusion
Because an anchoress could have a cat, / We may assume she had one. That it sat…
Some Changed Same
In whitest skeletons the shadows of day / dusk dim and, mantle-like, settle and lay / upon…
Thirty Years at First Things
This is our 300th number, marking thirty years of publication. In early 1989, Richard John Neuhaus had…
