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Titles We Didn’t Choose — November 2016
The November 2016 issue of First Things is ready for your perusal, in print and on our…
Liturgy as Military Banquet
Israel gathers at Hebron to make David king (1 Chronicles 11–12). There are the usual king-making actions—anointing,…
Gospel of the Broken Wall
Christians often oppose truth and unity. Evangelicals are inclined to leave unity to the mushy mainline, to…
Shepherd of Israel
1 Chronicles 11–12 form a unit, framed by references to David’s coronation ceremony at Hebron: A. Gathering…
A Day in Court
1:12 Literary editor Matthew Schmitz recounts his day in a Manhattan jury pool. He failed to be…
A Paulist Priest’s Wonderful Life
At ninety-five, Fr. James Lloyd is the oldest living Paulist priest. But you’d never know that from…
Reformational Catholicism, A Wish-List
In a 2014 piece published in First Things, I offered a “wish list” for Protestant churches, a…
Antidote to Sadness
Antonio of Venice is inexplicable sad. So is Portia of Belmont, her “little body . . .…
Lust Made Law
Dante is moving through the circle of the lustful (Comedy, Canto 5) and sees a host of…
Incontinence, Malice, Bestiality
Explaining the moral structure of hell in Canto 11 of Dante’s Comedy, Virgil lays out three general…
Infernal Baptism
Rodney Payton (Modern Reader’s Guide to Dante’s Inferno, 88–89) observes that “Dante’s vocabulary is rich in words…
The Trap of Law
Marjorie Garber (Shakespeare After All, 300–2) nicely captures the Pauline resonances of the trial scene in Merchant…
2 + 2 = Apples
In a 1911 article on “The Ant Colony as Organism,” William Morton Wheeler argued that an ant…
Under Which Altar?
Ian Boxall gets a lot right in his commentary on Revelation 6:9–11 (in his excellent The Revelation…
Upcoming Events 10.21.2016
New York City “Music and Early Lutheranism”with David S. Yeago Immanuel Lutheran Church, 122 E. 88th StreetOctober…
