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Angel at the Altar
After the seventh seal is opened, there is silence in heaven for a half hour as an…
David’s Steward
The second half of Isaiah 22 focuses on two individuals, the current royal steward of the house…
Austen the Innovator
In a superb essay in The Guardian, John Mullan (like Wayne Booth in his Rhetoric of Fiction) explains how…
Nikki Haley’s Mistake
Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory. During anxious times,…
Spaces of Apocalyptic
In his packed little book, Theology and the Spaces of Apocalyptic, Cyril O’Regan observes that “there seems to…
Empire with the Soul of a Church
In an article on Revelation, J. Daryl Charles observes that the Roman Empire “had brought about the…
Classifying God
The “do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?” controversy surges on, reported most recently in the…
The Cardinal Virtues & The Walking Dead
An academic friend was visiting from abroad, and after a day of talks and teaching, we wound…
First Links — 1.15.16
BREAKING: Episcopal Church Suspended from Full Participation in Anglican Communion Deacon Greg Kandra, Aleteia The Brutalism of…
“Gender-Sensitive” Catholicism?
The following is a public statement from Dr. Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, Germany. On October 22nd,…
How To Write An Introduction
Here’s some seasoned advice to young scholars on how to write an introduction. 1. Write the book…
Third Biennial Law & Religion Colloquium
Here’s an announcement about a workshop series that may interest some First Things readers. This spring, the…
The Great City
G. Biguzzi asks whether the city “Babylon” (Revelation 17-18) represents Rome or Jerusalem. The first option was…
Anagogy in Modernity
Medieval biblical scholars read Scripture through the lens of the quadriga, fourfold sense of Scripture. Texts had…
Superheroes and Modernity
“Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a…
