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Dunstan Thompson’s True Love
When the American Catholic poet Dunstan Thompson died in 1975, his death went virtually unnoticed. One of…
Quotidian Cinema
In his 1956 The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man, Edgar Morin observes that cinema might have been…
Slavery, Sinai, Sabbath
In Exodus, Israel moves, as James Jordan has long said, from slavery to Sabbath. That is a…
Easter’s Verdict
The resurrection was a judicial act, the Father’s response to Jesus who “handed himself over to the…
Bring Courtship Back
Staring down the barrel of Valentine’s Day, many young men and women have few and scanty models…
What We’ve Been Reading—2.12.16
Francesca Murphy On the night after the actor Alan Rickman died, I watched the version of Sense…
Forgetting Social Justice
Last week at First Things we were very happy to host Michael Novak and Paul Adams as…
On the Wood
Why did Jesus die on a cross? Thomas asks (ST III, 46, 4). He gives a variety…
Disciples in the Drama of Salvation
Jesus was a unifier – of his opponents as much as of his followers. As Raymund Schwager…
Self-Judgment at the Cross
In Raymund Schwager’s dramatic analysis of the atonement, Jesus comes proclaiming the kingdom of His good Father,…
First Links — 2.12.16
Interceding Discreetly Br. Barnabas McHenry, O. P. , Dominicana Take a Look at the Mental Junk Food…
Faith, Hope, Love, Fast
The history of the Bible turns on fasts broken and kept. As Alexander Schmemann put it, God…
The Disconnected Establishment
Rod Dreher recently posted excerpts of a letter from one of his readers. It was an extended,…
Putting the oikos into Oikonomy
Psalm 128 promises a fruitful home to the man who fears Yahweh. He will prosper from the…
Grace, Judgment, Gospel
Atonement theories can be seen as efforts to synthesize the grace and judgment of God: How does…
