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Events Roundup—8.29.17
New York, New York Catholic Education Foundation Awards EventTuesday, September 26Join the foundation to honor the achievements…
Welcome to Post-Christian Society
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno talks with associate editor Julia Yost…
The Convert’s Neurosis: A Cocktail Recipe
The Convert’s Neurosis: 2 oz rye, for American integralism .25 oz Chartreuse, for a fixation on Latin and…
Moving Day
For the past five years, I have blogged here at First Things. I was surprised when Matt…
Two Deaths in England
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Associate editor Julia Yost discusses the death of Charlie…
Searching for Sincerity
Jon Baskin’s piece on David Foster Wallace is the best thing I’ve come across on Wallace. He…
Multiple Meanings
What do we do when we disagree about what the Scriptures say? Augustine’s answer to that question…
Kantian Emotions
A “Kantian chapter on emotion and responsibility,” write John Sabini and Maury Silver (Emotion, Character, and Responsibility), …
Reformation Disenchantment?
Since at least Max Weber, historians and sociologists have assumed that the Reformation contributed to what Weber…
Liturgical Repentance
The Chronicler’s account of Hezekiah’s Passover (2 Chronicles 30:1–12) is arranged in a neat chiasm: A. Hezekiah…
Royal Epistles
Paul writes letters. Letter-writing—or mail electronically composed and delivered—has become so commonplace that we don’t immediately grasp…
Reformed Landscape
Few studies of the Reformation, writes Alexandra Walsham (The Reformation of the Landscape), “have considered how it…
Calvin, Liturgy, Art
John Calvin isn’t the first theologian who comes to mind when thinking about either liturgy or art,…
Blessed Bankruptcy
Boyd Hilton writes (in Age of Atonement) about Evangelical “aetiology of business immorality” that emerges from 19th-century…
