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Exposure Therapy and the Way of the Cross
This Holy Week, I am feeling the need to participate in some Catholic extremism. Now of course,…
Calling Student Writers!
Do you want to see your writing on the First Things website? If you are currently enrolled…
Ascension and Absence
Robert Farneti (Mimetic Politics) observes that Rene Girard refused to describe his project as theology. Farneti thinks…
Dostoevsky’s Archetypes
Lonny Harrison’s forthcoming Archetypes from Underground suggests that Jung, as well as literary treatments of archetypes (Frye),…
Lord and Servant
Like a high priest preparing to cleanse the footstool of Yahweh, Jesus put aside His garments and…
Cliched Truth
In one section of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, which turned 20 this year, we follow Don…
Levitical Pastoral Care
Maps and Meanings by Nancy Wiener and Jo Hirschmann aims to apply insights drawn from the book…
Logic of Impurity
It’s an inventive solution. In an essay on the Logic of Impurity, David Kraemer argues, counterintuitively, that…
First Links — 3.22.16
Religion’s Place in a Religiously Violent WorldMiroslav Volf, Christianity Today In Fear and TremblingBr. Hyacinth Grubb, Dominicana…
Photographs of a Life
When I Was a Photographerby félix nadartranslated by eduardo cadava and liana theodoratoumit, 336 pages, $24.95 F…
Through the Darkness
Holy Week is a passage through darkness, as we commemorate the betrayal, arrest, trial, and crucifixion of…
Dreamworks
Kelley Bulkeley’s Big Dreams is about the big subject of religion, examined from the perspective of our…
Malick’s Masterpiece
Since 2011’s Tree of Life, Terrence Malick’s movies have had less and less use for narrative convention.…
Paul Provoked
As Paul strolls through Athens, what impresses him is not the architecture, culture, or art. He sees…
Crowds
Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd was first published in 1895. It reads like something taken from today’s…
