Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
America As a Catholic Country
As a student in the fourth grade of Saint Thomas Aquinas School in East Lansing, Michigan, I…
Christmas Guide to Buying a Bible: 2019 Edition
In 2012, First Things asked me to suggest Bibles to give as gifts during the Christmas season.…
An Anthem for Postliberals
At my home church in Birmingham, Alabama, and in churches I visit across the country, I often…
Letters—December 2019
The New Right Sohrab Ahmari correctly identifies many of the pathologies haunting liberal order in the West…
On Supersessionism
You brood of vipers,” excoriates John the Baptist in what may well be the most politically incorrect…
Algorithm Religion
It’s 2032 and you’re heading into town in your self-driving car. You are alone, asleep in the…
Peace In a Plastic World
Western secular culture “is a kind of hothouse growth,” Christopher Dawson wrote—an artificial culture that shelters us…
Torso
The Christmas angel in the window, / a headless, legless mutilation, / stands propped by a steel…
First Sunday
In Advent, the hermit lights a candle-end, / Drips wax onto a saucer, stands it there. ...
The Edifice
I chose a bench where I could read Augustine / As one may do beside construction sites.…
America’s Fat Knight
Harold Bloom, who died in October at age eighty-nine, was The Last Great American Literary Critic. The…
Failed Leaders
Suicides among Americans aged ten to twenty-four increased by more than 50 percent between 2007 and 2017.…
Ibsen’s Soulcraft
The Norwegian master Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) is and will remain the most important modern playwright—which is not…
Opiate of the Theologians
Not until the nineteenth century did any Christian body make universal salvation its official teaching. The first…
Notes on Summer Camp
More than twenty-five years ago, I spent two summers as a camp counselor in North Carolina. This…
