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The schism in the American Presbyterian church following the revivals of the late eighteenth century was, Niebuhr…

Two traditionally Catholic countries recently legalized same-sex marriage. In Ireland, the constitution was amended by popular referendum;…

The Brutal Dictatorship the World Keeps IgnoringAdam Taylor, Washington Post Waterloo and WisdomTerrance W. Klein, America Writers Choose…

When ESPN named its courage award after the late Arthur Ashe, they could not have made a…

At the Center for Law and Religion Forum today, I interview historian Christian Sahner about his recent book, Among…

Simon Gathercole (Defending Substitution) finds a common theme running through alternatives to substitutionary conceptions of atonement: They…

William Swatos’s 1979 monograph, Into Denominationalism, is a model of careful historical and sociological judgment. Though he relies…

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire from heaven (Genesis 19:24). This was a response to the…

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I am not paid to write for the First Things blog. I write for it because I…

Agricultural cycles symbolize periods of time. Human projects begin with a time of sowing and planting; then…

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Jim Gaffigan’s new TV show and its depiction of the…

Matthew Schmitz I’ve been reading Madness in Civilization, Andrew Scull’s history of madness from the braying of Nebuchadnezzar…

The matter of Rachel Dolezal, the apparently Caucasian woman who has made claims to be at least…

At almost every event we hold in the office of First Things, I end up speaking with…