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Guilt and Guilt-Bearing
Brad Littlejohn presents a number of criticisms of my account of penal substitution in Delivered from the…
Atomizing and Abstraction
I’ve been reading commentaries on Revelation 1:12–20, learning a great deal, but getting increasingly frustrated. Even the…
A Vote for Honor
Scott Liebertz is right that one essential ethical justification for a refusal to vote for one of…
Catholics Face a Choice
Catholics face a choice. Will they uphold the Church’s teaching that the divorced and remarried cannot be…
Beyond Language?
In his Anchor Bible commentary on Revelation, Craig Koester says this about John’s initial vision of Jesus:…
Titles We Didn’t Choose — October 2016
The October 2016 issue of First Things is ready for your perusal, in print and on our…
Against Gender
In this episode of the First Things Podcast: Remember that time Slate alerted the civilized world to…
Motiveless Malignity
“What purpose do the Weird Sisters have for confronting the hero—or what is their masters’ purpose, if…
Macbeth and the Bible
Peter Milward writes of “meta-drama” in Hamlet and Macbeth in his contribution Shakespeare’s Christianity. He argues (unconvincingly)…
Stranger Things
Gracy Olmstead has joined the chorus of praise for Netflix’s Stranger Things. She has many insightful things…
Whither Social Conservativism?
Pete Spiliakos doesn’t see Trumpism as the fulfillment of Buchananism. Trump is rather evidence of “the erosion…
Intimate Violence
Since her recent canonization, Mother Teresa’s letter on abortion, addressed to the US Supreme Court, has been…
Science at the DOD
Daniel Sarewitz argues in New Atlantis that science is sick, and that the disease is systemic and…
Beowulfian Chiasms
In a 1979 article in PMLA, John D. Niles examined the “ring composition” of Beowulf. He argued…
Poetry, Nimble and Droopy
OK, so you want poetry? Try this. Macbeth, 1.6.1-3, Duncan speaking: “This castle hath a pleasant air.…
